• Resources for contextual Christian theology today.

    For those seeking an explanation of how to form and practice theology, I am writing Coffeehouse Theology:Reflecting on God in Everyday Life. It is scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2008 with NavPress.

    This site contains some of the resources that were part of my research, as well as links to books and other helpful sites for contextual theology

Books

Postmodern Theology

  • Brian D. McLaren: A Generous Orthodoxy
  • Trevor A. Hart: Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology
  • Stanley J. Grenz: Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context
  • Stanley J. Grenz: Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era
  • Carl Raschke: The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity
  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology

Context and Christianity

  • Webb: Slaves, women, and homosexuals
  • William A. Dyrness: Learning About Theology from the Third World
  • Constructing Local Theologies
  • Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible
  • H. Richard Niebuhr: Christ and Culture
  • Stephen B. Bevans: Models of Contextual Theology (Faith and Cultures Series)
  • Lesslie Newbigin: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Missional Church

  • Leslie Newbigin: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
  • Alan J. Roxburgh: The Missionary Congregation
  • David Jacobus Bosch: Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture
  • Lesslie Newbigin: Truth and Authority in Modernit
  • Lesslie Newbigin: The Open Secret
  • Darrell Guder: Missional Church

Ministry

  • Spencer Burke: Making Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations About God, Community, and Culture
  • Robert Webber: Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World
  • Robert E. Webber: The Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World
  • Jimmy Long: Emerging Hope: A Strategy for Reaching Postmodern Generations
  • Eddie Gibbs: ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry
  • Dan Kimball: Emerging Church, The
  • Dan Kimball: Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations
  • Chuck Smith Jr.: There Is a Season : Authentic, Innovative Ministry in Popular Culture
  • Brian D. McLaren: Church on the Other Side, The
  • Brian D. McLaren: A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

Digging Deeper

  • Stanley J. Grenz: Theology for the Community of God
  • Roger E. Olson: The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform
  • Roger E. Olson: The Mosaic of Christian Beliefs: Twenty Centuries of Unity & Diversity
  • The Art of Reading Scripture

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