WM760: Readings in Missions

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1 WM760: Readings in Missions Professor: Rollin G. Grams Semester: Fall, 2017 General Comment: This independent study, reading course exposes students to thinking and reading on mission topics in several areas: the Bible and missions, the history of missions, theology and missions, missions and the local church, missions and ecclesiastical organizations (denominations and mission agencies), missions and world religions, mission to a particular context, and the practice of missions. Relation to Curriculum WM760 counts towards the elective requirements in Christian Thought for the M.Div. and MA degrees. Objectives and Course Design Students choose this course in order to be able to focus on reading in mission studies: this is a course guided largely by the reading chosen for the semester. The course is intended to give students a sweeping overview of general areas in mission studies rather than focus on any particular one of them. This fulfills the purpose of opening up a wide area of ongoing reading in missions to students to pursue beyond this course and seminary. Overall, a focus on the role Scripture plays in missions draws the reading together, although the reading covers more than this single topic. The bulk of time spent on this course is with the reading, along with some direction/discussion of the reading through tutorials. Students will read about 3,000 words, keep notes on the reading, and engage the reading. They will also meet for approximately six hours with the professor in person on campus and/or by Zoom. Meeting times will be set up by the professor once the roster of students has been established and under the guidance of Registration (although Registration will assign us dates to meet). Through this course in particular, students should: Have an understanding of general areas of mission studies and be able to engage discussion in each; Be oriented to a program of further study in missions relevant to their ministry; Gain critical tools for reflection on mission practice; Appreciate the missional window into other areas of study for their degrees: in particular, Biblical studies, Church history, theology, ethics, and ministry practice. Relation to the Seminary s Mission Statement Mission studies is a general field of study relevant to all areas of the curriculum. This course will, therefore, contribute to all the points noted in the seminary s mission statement, for which see: Communication 1

2 The course uses Sakai as a platform for class discussion and uploading assignments. Please write questions about the class to me through the Sakai site ( Messages ), but be sure to have the go to my actual by adding a copy to rgrams@gordonconwell.edu. Otherwise, the message just sits on the Sakai site. Of course, more personal communication should not go to the entire class or Sakai site but directly to my address. Textbooks/Required Reading For the order of reading, see lower down. The selected reading and the purpose of the selections for reading are noted here: i. Build a Biblical understanding of Christian missions by reading 694 pages: Goheen, Michael. A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, ISBN-10: Pp (Available on Kindle.) Schnabel, E. J. Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, ISBN: Read pp = 438 pages. (Available on Kindle, but for essentially the same price as in print.) ii. Build an historical perspective on missions by reading at least 466 pages: Neill, Stephen, and Owen Chadwick. A History of Christian Missions. Penguin, ISBN: Read pp = 466 pages. iii. Build a theological perspective on missions by reading at least 204 pages: Stott, John M. and Christopher J. H. Wright. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, ISBN: Read pp = 204 pages. (Available as a Kindle book.) iv. Build a perspective on context and practice of mission by reading: 1. A work on the context and practice of mission Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World (After Christendom). Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, ISBN: Pp (Available as a Kindle book.) 2. A mission biography: Grams, Rollin G. Stewards of Grace: A Reflective, Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa, (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010). Pp (Available on Kindle.) v. Build an understanding of Christian mission vis-à-vis the other major missionary religion, Islam. 2

3 Sookhdeo, Patrick. A Christian s Pocket Guide to Islam. Rev. ed. Christian Focus, ISBN: Pp Course Structure Date Reflection on Reading and Topic Reading Week 1 Aug. 28 Sept What aspects of missionary work are in view in this reading? 2. What difficult issues in the theology and practice of mission are raised in this biography? 3. How did mission work outside of and within a denomination help or hinder the work? 4. What questions and concerns do you have about foreign mission service after reading 5. What suggestions would you have to a church s or organization s (denomination, mission society) practice and support of missions after reading 6. How does this book challenge you personally and vocationally? Grams, Rollin G. Stewards of Grace Week 2 Sept. 4 Sept. 10 Week 3 Sept. 11 Sept. 17 Week 4 Sept. 18 Sept. 24 Week 5 Sept. 25 Oct How would you define missions Biblically? 2. What is the mission of God? 3. How does Israel s story relate to missions? 4. How do the Old and New Testaments relate on the subject of missions? 5. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 6. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 7. How does this book challenge you personally in your vocation and ministry? 1. What is the authors understanding of missions? What makes mission Christian? Biblical (OT and NT)? 2. What issues arise in applying a Christian understanding of missions to the modern world? 3. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 4. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 5. How does this book challenge you personally in your vocation and ministry? 1. What is the authors understanding of missions? What makes mission Pauline? 2. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 3. What suggestions would you have to a church s or Goheen, Michael. Nations. A Light to the Stott, John M. and Christopher J. H. Wright. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Schnabel, E. J. Paul the Missionary 3

4 Week 6 Oct. 2 Oct. 8 Week 7 Oct 9 Oct. 15 Week 8 Oct 16 Oct. 22 Week 9 Oct. 23 Oct. 29 Week 10 Oct. 30 Nov. 5 Week 11 Nov. 6 Nov. 12 Week 12 Nov. 13 Nov How does this book challenge you personally in your vocation and ministry? 1. What understandings of missions has the Church held at Neill, Stephen, and Owen Chadwick. different periods? A History of Christian Missions 2. How has the Church succeeded and failed in a Biblical practice of missions? 3. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 4. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 5. How does this book challenge you personally in your vocation and ministry? 1. What is Islam? Sookhdeo, Patrick. A Christian s 2. How does Islam understand mission (dawa)? Pocket Guide to Islam. 3. Compare and Contrast Christian missions to Islamic missions in theory (theology) and practice. 1. How does our ecclesiology shape our understanding of Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: missions? Church and Mission in a Strange 2. How does our post-christendom and post-christian context New World relate to our understanding and practice of missions? 3. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 4. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 5. How does this book challenge you personally in your vocation and ministry? Reading Week: Catch up or work ahead on your reading for this course. 1. What is this book about? 2. How does the author make his/her points? 3. What are the author s points? 4. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 5. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 6. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 1. What is this book about? 2. How does the author make his/her points? 3. What are the author s points? Read 250 pages of your own choosing from the bibliography or approved substitute in the area of Bible and mission. Read 250 pages of your own choosing from the bibliography or approved substitute in the area of history and/or theology and mission. It would be appropriate to 4

5 Week 13 Nov. 20 Nov. 26 Week 14 Nov Dec What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 5. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 6. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 1. What is this book about? 2. How does the author make his/her points? 3. What are the author s points? 4. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 5. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 6. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 1. What is this book about? 2. How does the author make his/her points? 3. What are the author s points? 4. What questions and concerns arise for you after reading this book? How did this reading helpfully engage or challenge issues that arose from your previous reading on the course? 5. What suggestions would you have to a church s or 6. What suggestions would you have to a church s or choose a book related to mission history and/or theology within your own theological tradition or denomination. Read 250 pages of your own choosing from the bibliography or approved substitute in the area of the practice of mission. You may choose to read another biography that highlights mission practice. Read 250 pages of your own choosing from the bibliography or approved substitute in the area of Christian mission and other religions or the contemporary or a specific cultural context. Course Requirements A. Reading Requirements: 1. Complete the required reading for the course by filling out the following reading report and returning it via to the professor by December 3. This is worth 10% of the final grade. Guide for Self-Grading Reading Participation in the Course Grade A B C Level of Reading Careful reading and engagement with the text. Good notes taken for future use. (Possibly additional reading done in the book or on the subject.) Careful reading and engagement with the text. Underlining of books and occasional notes taken. Complete reading of the text. Very little skimming. Some engagement, a little underlining, no notes. 5

6 D Complete reading of the text. Some sections skimmed. Inadequate engagement and underlining. F Incomplete reading of the text. ( F grade for entire course)* *NOTE: While the reading assignment is figured at 10% of the final grade, the reading for this course must be completed to the 90% total of pages required in order to pass the course. The course goals are to cover the breadth of mission topics and to read about 3,000 words. See the bibliography to choose additional reading to meet this requirement. If a student wishes to substitute required reading for something else, this may be discussed. For example, if a student has previously read a book or is involved in some particular missional project, some alteration in the reading may be possible. In a field such as missions, reading can be theoretical or pragmatic, historical or contemporary, theological or pastoral, academic or inspirational. Students will read within certain mission categories and issues that are presented in the following bibliography. All reading on the course must be fresh material to the student: do not count reading completed prior to this course. One further note about the reading, which is mostly a collection of academic resources on mission topics. While in a seminary course the reading may be more on the academic side, students are asked to read one mission biography in the mix (Stewards of Grace) and so approach the academic issues from a narrative, historical, contextual, biographical, and inspirational direction. 2. At the end of reading each required book, students are asked to post some (5-10) take-away points on the forum, including page numbers. This is a completion grade. Students should review what others have captured from the reading and are encouraged to engage further with each other on the forum. This work will prepare everyone for group sessions. 3. Be prepared to discuss the reading in our group sessions in class or on Zoom. B. Writing Requirements: Write 3 book reviews, each worth 30% of the final grade. Each review is due at the end of the session devoted to that subject/book (see course schedule). Submit via dropbox on Sakai. Students are to write 3 book reviews for grading in the course. Each review is to be about 2,000 words in length (about 8 pages double-spaced). These are short essays because the focus in this course is not research but wide reading. Unlike typical reviews that give most of the space to reporting the content of the book, these reviews are to assume readers have themselves read the books; thus, the space is to be given to engaging the book on at least 3 points of interest to the student. Engagement with the reading should be academic, and therefore it should be by exploring the points through: Biblical, historical, theological, ethical, anthropological, and/or sociological engagement, and/or by critical reflection on mission practice (as appropriate). For the book reviews, choose from: Goheen, Stott, Schnabel, Murray, Sookhdeo, and Neill. Grading Guidelines for Reviews Comments: 6

7 Content and Learning: Evidence of a grasp of the content of the book; understanding of the arguments, material, and conclusions; correct representation of the author s arguments and conclusions Analysis: Ability to organize the content of book for analysis; insightful comments on the arguments. Critical Strengths: Demonstration of an ability to engage with the material critically through access to new information, logical considerations, attention to methodology, etc. Writing and Argument: Well written essay (structure, clarity, good grammar, good detail, correct observations, etc.) GRADE for This Assignment: C. Class Meeting: This course is set up as a directed study, but it may involve any number of students. Our goal is to have a total of 6 hours class interaction with the professor during the semester. Given the uncertainty about enrollment, different approaches might be taken to class meeting times and places. It is possible that we will meet as a group on campus during the semester (most likely in November) or by Zoom as a group or even individually. The professor will be abroad for part of the semester. correspondence is an alternative way to meet as well. Once enrollment in the course is clear, we will discuss ways to meet during the semester. This is a requirement of the course. 7

8 Bibliography This bibliography is arranged in four broad sections (see Roman numberals). Students will be reading both required and selected reading from each section. I. The Bible and Missions Bauckham, Richard. Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World. Carlisle: Paternoster Press and Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, Grams, Rollin G., I. Howard Marshall, Peter Penner, Robin Routledge, eds. Bible and Mission. Schwarzenfeld: Neufeld Verlag, Köstenberger, A. J., and P. T. O Brien. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001 (ISBN ). Bowers, W. Paul. Mission. In Dictionary of Paul and his Letters. Eds. G. F. Hawthorne, R. P. Martin, D. G. Reid. Downers Grove, Leicester: IVP, Pp II. The History of Missions Primary Sources Herodotus, The Histories (available at: Strabo, Geography (available at: Judaism Bird, Michael F. Crossing Over Land and Sea: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, McKnight, Scott, ed. A Light among the Gentiles: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, [I. H. Marshall responds to the Bowers-O Brien discussion in Who Were the Evangelists?, : the wider perspective of the Gospels and Acts supports a broader understanding of mission as a responsibility for all members of the church.] Early Church Adna, J. and H. Kvalbein, eds. The Mission of the Early Church to Jews and Gentiles. WUNT 127. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Dodds, E. R. Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine. Reprint: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: Dunn, James D. G. Beginning from Jerusalem. Christianity in the Making II. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Dunn, James D. G. Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity. Christianity in the Making III. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, Dunn, James D. G. The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and their Significance for the Character of Christianity. London and Philadelphia: SCM and Trinity Press, 1991 [1996] Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Time of the Early Church. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, Meyer, Ben F. The Early Christians: Their World Mission and Self-Discovery. GNS 16. Wilmington: Glazier, Rothschild, Clare K., and Jens Schröter, eds. The Rise and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries of the Common Era. WUNT 301. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Schnabel, E. J. Early Christian Mission. 2 Volumes. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004 (ISBN ) 8

9 Schnabel, E. J. Mission, Early non-pauline. In Dictionary of New Testament Background. Eds. C. A. Evans, S. E. Porter. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, Pp ATLASES AND MAPS Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Map-by-Map Directory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Tsafrir, Yoram, L. Di Segni, and J. Green. Iudaea. Palaestina. Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods. Maps and Gazetteer. Tabula Imperii Romani. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, History of Missions Harnack, Adolf von. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. 2nd ed. New York: Putnam, Kane, J. Herbert. A Concise History of the Christian World Mission: A Panoramic View of Missions from Pentecost to the Present. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, Neill, Stephen, and Owen Chadwick. A History of Christian Missions. London: Penguin Books, Shenk, Wilbert R., ed. North American Foreign Missions, : Theology, Theory, and Practice. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, Sunquist, Scott. The Unexpected Christian Century: The Reversal and Transformation of Christianity, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Walls, Andrew F. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, Walls, Andrew F. The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of the Faith. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, Yates, Timothy. Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, III. The Old Testament and Mission Martin-Achard, R. A Light to the Nations: a Study of the Old Testament Concept of Israel's Mission to the World. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Blenkinsopp, J. 'Second Isaiah--Prophet of Universalism.' JSOT 41 (1988): Filbeck, David. Yes, God of the Gentiles, Too: The Missionary Message of the Old Testament. Billy Graham Center, Gelston, A. 'The Missionary Message of Second Isaiah.' SJT 18 (1965): Gottwold, N. K. All the Kingdoms of the Earth. New York: Harper and Row, Halas, H. 'The Universalism of Isaiah.' CBQ 12 (1950): Hollenberg, D. E. 'Nationalism and the nations in Isaiah XL-LV.' VT 19 (1969): Kaiser, Walter C. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations. Grand Rapids: Baker Legrand, L. Unity and Plurality: Mission in the Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1990; French original, 1988). Martin-Achard, R. A Light to the Nations: a Study of the Old Testament Concept of Israel's Mission to the World. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Rowley, H. H. The Missionary Message of the Old Testament. London: Carey, Scheurer, E. Altes Testament und Mission: Zur Begründung des Missionsauftrages. TVG Monographien und Studienbücher. Giessen: Brunnen, Scobie, Charles H. H. 'Israel and the Nations: An Essay in Biblical Theology.' Tyndale Bulletin 43.2 (1992): Wright,Christopher J. H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible s Grand Narrative. Downer s Grove, IL: IVP 9

10 Academic, The New Testament and Mission Grams, Rollin G. According to the Gospel. Unpublished, Grams, Rollin G. Gospel and Mission in Paul s Ethics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, Hahn, F. Mission in neutestamentlicher Sicht: Aufsätze, Vorträge und Predigten. Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen. NF 8. Erlangen: Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, Hahn, Ferdinand. Mission in the New Testament. London: SCM, 1965 Hahn, F. Das Verständnis der Mission im Neuen Testament. Meek, James A. The Gentile Mission in Old Testament Citations in Acts: Text, Hermeneutic, and Purpose. Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, Nissen, J. New Testament and Mission: Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern: P. Lang, 1999; Danish original, Jesus and Mission Jesus and the Gospels Grams, Rollin. The Mission of Jesus and His Disciples: Studies in the Gospels. Unpublished, Schnabel, E. J. Jesus and the Beginnings of the Mission to the Gentiles. In Jesus of Nazareth: Lord and Christ: Essays on the Historical Jesus and New Testament Christology. Eds. J. B. Green, M. Turner. FS I. H. Marshall. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Carlisle: Paternoster, Pp Schnabel, Eckhard. Early Christian Mission, Vol. 1: Jesus and the Twelve. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos, Schnabel, E. J. Jesus and the Beginnings of the Mission to the Gentiles. In Jesus of Nazareth: Lord and Christ: Essays on the Historical Jesus and New Testament Christology. Eds. J. B. Green, M. Turner. FS I. H. Marshall. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Carlisle: Paternoster, Pp Wilk, F. Jesus und die Völker in der Sicht der Synoptiker. BZNW 109. Berlin, New York: W. de Gruyter, [Regarding his study of Matthew s Gospel, pp , Wilk says that, only as Jesus is Christ for Israel is he also Lord for the nations (146, my translation).] Mark Kato, Z. Die Völkermission im Markusevangelium: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. EHS Frankfurt: P. Lang; Bern: H. Lang, Svartik, Jesper. Mark and Mission: Mk 7:1-23 in its Narrative and Historical Contexts. CB.NT 32. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, Q Tuckett, Christopher M. Q and the History of Early Christianity: Studies on Q. Peabody / Edinburgh: Hendrickson / T. & T. Clark, Uro, Risto. Sheep among the Wolves: A Study on the Mission Instructions of Q. AASF.DHL 47. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Matthew Brown, S. The Matthean Community and the Gentile Mission. NT 22 (1980): Grams, Rollin G. 'Narrative Dynamics in Isaiah's and Matthew's Mission Theology.' Transformation 10

11 21.4 (Oct., 2004): Konradt, Konradt. Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew. Baylor: Baylor University Press, LaGrand, J. The Earliest Christian Mission to All Nations in the Light of Matthew s Gospel. Grand Rapids, Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, Lange, J. Das Erscheinen des Auferstandenen im Evangelium nach Matthäus: Eine traditions- un redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Mt FzB 11. Würzburg: Echter, Park, E. C. The Mission Discourse in Matthew s Interpretation. WUNT II.81. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Weaver, D. J. Matthew s Missionary Discourse: A Literary Critical Analysis. JSNT.SS 38. Sheffield: SAP, Luke Dollar, Harold. St. Luke s Missiology: A Cross-Cultural Challenge. Pasadena: William Carey Library, Lane, Thomas J. Luke and the Gentile Mission: Gospel Anticipates Acts. EHS Frankfurt: P. Lang, Penney, John M. The Missionary Emphasis of Lukan Pneumatology. JPTSup 12. Sheffield: Academic Press, John Köstenberger, A. J. The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples According to the Fourth Gospel: With Implications for the Fourth Gospel s Purpose and the Mission of the Contemporary Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Okure, T. The Johannine Approach to Mission: A Contextual Study of John WUNT II.31. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Early Church and Acts Gill, David W. J., and C. Gempf, ed. The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting. The Book of Acts in Its First- Century Setting. Vol. 2. Exeter: Paternoster, 1994 Marshall, I. Howard, and David Peterson, eds. Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998 (ISBN ) Matson, David Lertis. Household Conversion Narratives in Acts. Pattern and Interpretation. JSNTSup 123. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996 Pao, David. Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Schnabel, E. J. Mission, Early non-pauline. In Dictionary of New Testament Background. Eds. C. A. Evans, S. E. Porter. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, Pp Wilson, S. G. The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts. SNTSMS 23. Cambridge: CUP, Paul and Mission Alvarez-Cineira, D. Die Religionspolitik des Kaisers Claudius und die paulinische Mission. Herders Biblische Studien 19. Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder, Barnett, Paul W. Paul: Missionary of Jesus. After Jesus. Volume 2. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Bolt, P. G. and M. Thompson. The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul s Mission. Leicester: IVP, Bowers, W. Paul. Studies in Paul's Understanding of His Mission. Ph.D. Dissertation. Cambridge,

12 Vom Brock, C. Thessaloniki Stadt des Kassander und Gemeinde des Paulus: Eine frühe christliche Gemeinde in ihrer heidnischen Umwelt. WUNT II, 125. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck [Review in EJTH 11, 2002, ] Burke, Trevor J. and Brian S. Rosner, eds. Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice. Library of New Testament Studies 240; London: T. & T. Clark, [See review: ctice] 1. Seyoon Kim, Paul as an Eschatological Herald 2. James W. Thompson, Paul as a Missionary Pastor 3. James C. Miller, Paul and His Ethnicity 4. Richard J. Gibson, Paul the Missionary, in Priestly Service of the Servant-Christ (Rom ) 5. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, The Mission of God in Paul s Letter to the Romans 6. J. Daniel Hays, Paul and the Multi-Ethnic First Century World 7. J. Ayodeji Adewuya, The Sacrificial-Missiological Function of Paul s Sufferings in the Context of 2 Corinthians 8. Paul W. Barnett, Was Paul s Grace-Based Gospel True to Jesus? 9. Arland J. Hultgren, Paul s Christology and His Mission to the Gentiles 10. Karl Olav Sandnes, A Missionary Strategy in 1 Corinthians Trevor J. Burke, The Holy Spirit as the Controlling Dynamic in Paul s Role as Missionary to the Thessalonians 12. Brian S. Rosner, The Glory of God in Paul s Missionary Theology and Practice 13. Stanley E. Porter, Reconciliation as the Heart of Paul s Missionary Theology 14. Roy E. Ciampa, Paul s Theology of the Gospel 15. William S. Campbell, Universality and Particularity in Paul s Understanding and Strategy of Mission 16. James Ware, The Word of Life 17. Steve Walton, Paul, Patronage, and Pay 18. Michael Barram, Pauline Mission as Salvific Intentionality 19. E. Randolph Richards, (Mis)Reading Paul Through Western Eyes Goulder, Michael D. Paul and the Competing Mission in Corinth. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, Grams, Rollin G. Gospel and Mission in Paul s Ethics. Ph.D. Dissertation: Duke University, Grams, Rollin G. Paul among the Mission Theologians. Missionalia (3, 2006). Keown, Mark J. Congregational Evangelism in Philippians: The Centrality of an Appeal for Gospel Proclamation to the Fabric of Philippians. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2008 Lietaert Peerbolte, Lambertus J. Paul the Missionary. Leuven: Peeters, O Brien, P. T. Gospel and Mission in the Writings of Paul: An Exegetical and Theological Analysis. Grand Rapids: Baker; Carlisle: Paternoster, Ollrog, W.-H. Paulus und seine Mitarbeiter: Untersuchungen zu Theorie und Praxis der paulinischen Mission. WMANT 50. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, Plummer, Robert L. Paul s Understanding of the Church s Mission. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Bletchley: Paternoster, Riesner, Rainer. Paul's Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Scott, J. M., ed. Paul and the Nations: The Old Testament and Jewish Background of Paul's Mission to the Nations with Special Reference to the Destination of Galatians. WUNT 84. Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck] Schnabel, Eckhard. Early Christian Mission, Vol. 2: Paul and the Early Church. InterVarsity Press, Schnabel, E. J. Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, Strelan, Richard E. Paul, Artemis and Jews in Ephesus. BZNW 80. Berlin: de Gruyter,

13 Wilk, F. Die Bedeutung des Jesajabuches für Paulus. FRLANT 179. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Biblical Theology and Theology of Mission Bosch, David. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. American Society of Missiology Series 16. Maryknoll: Orbis, Flemming, Dean E. Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, Flemming, Dean. Recovering the Full Mission of God: A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing, and Telling. Grand Rapids: IVP Academic, Freyne, Seán. The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Goheen, Michael. A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, ISBN-10: Goheen, Michael. Reading the Bible Missionally. GOCS. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, Grams, Rollin. The Gospel of Transforming Grace. Hahn, F. Das Verständnis der Mission im Neuen Testament. Kirk, J. Andrew. The Mission of Theology and the Theology of Mission. Trinity Press, Kirk, J. Andrew. What is Mission? Theoretical Explorations. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, Kok, Jacobus, Tobias Nicklas, Dieter T. Roth, and Christopher M. Hays, eds. Sensitivity Towards Outsiders: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity. WUNT Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Köstenberger, Andreas J. The Place of Mission in New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Determine the Significance of Mission within the Scope of the New Testament s Message as a Whole. Missiology XXVII.3 (July 1999): Laansma, John C., G. R. Osborne, and R. Van Neste, eds. New Testament Theology in Light of the Church s Mission. FS I. H. Marshall. Milton Keynes / Eugene, OR: Paternoster / Cascade, 2011 Larkin, W. J. and J. F. Williams, eds. Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach. American Society of Missiology Series 27. Maryknoll: Orbis, [articles on mission in Mt., Paul, etc.] Legrand, Lucien. Unity and Plurality. Mission in the Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis, Nissen, J. New Testament and Mission: Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern: P. Lang, 1999; Danish original, Ott, Craig and Strauss, Stephen J., with Timothy Tennent. Encountering Theology of Mission: Biblical Foundations, Historical Developments, and Contemporary Issues. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Pak, J. Yeong-Sik. Paul as Missionary: A Comparative Study of Missionary Discourse in Paul s Epistles and Selected Contemporary Jewish Texts. EHS XXIII 410. Frankfurt, Bern, New York: P. Lang, Piper, J. Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions. Grand Rapids: Baker, Schreiter, Robert. Reconciliation: Mission and Ministry in a Changing Social Order. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, Senior, Donald and Carrol Stuhlmueller. The Biblical Foundations for Mission. Maryknoll: Orbis, Stenschke, Christoph. Neuere Arbeiten und Tendenzen zur Mission im Neuen Testament. European Journal of Theology XI (2003): 1. Pp Steyne, P. M. In Step with the God of the Nations: A Biblical Theology of Mission. Columbia: Impact International Foundation, Sundquist, Scott W. and Amos Yong. The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21 st Century. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, Sundquist, Scott W. Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory. Grand Rapids, MI: 13

14 Baker Academic, [Three parts: history of missions; Trinitarian theology of mission in Scripture; the Church in mission today.] Tennent, Timothy. Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Pub., Yoder, John Howard. Theology of Mission: A Believers Church Perspective. Ed. Gayle Gerber Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, The Church and Mission Beale, Greg. The Temple and the Church s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, Goheen, Michael. Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History, and Issues. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, Goheen, Michael and Margaret O Gara, eds. That the World May Believe: Essays on Mission and Unity in Honour of George Vandervelde. UPA, Grams, Rollin. The Church and Its Mission. Unpublished, III. Theology and Missions/Missiology Bevans, Stephen B. Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, Burrows, William R., Mark R. Gomik, Janice A. McLean, eds. Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, Kirk, Andrew J. The Church and the World: Understanding the Relevance of Mission. Paternoster, Kirk, Andrew J. What is Mission? Some Theological Explorations. Darton, Longman, & Todd, Newbiggin, Lesley. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, Sanneh, Lamin O. Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Skreslet, Stanley H. Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, Samuel, Vinay K. and Chris Sugden, eds. Mission as Transformation: A Theology of the Whole Gospel. Oxford: Regnum, Stott, John M. and Christopher J. H. Wright. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Rev. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, Spencer, Stephen. SCM Studyguide: Christian Mission. London: SCM, Sunquist, Scott. Engaging Globalization: Participation in Suffering and Glory. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, Tennent, Timothy. Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think About and Discuss Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, Van Engen, Charles. Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, Van Engen, Charles, Dean Gilliland, Paul Pierson, eds. Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Third Millennium. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, Van Engen, Charles and Jude Tiersma. God So Loved the City: Seeking a Theology for Urban Mission. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, Van Engen, Charles, ed. The State of Missiology Today: Global Innovations in Christian Witness. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Walls, Andrew F. and Cathy Ross. Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, IV. Context and Practice of Mission Globalization 14

15 Myers, Bryant. Engaging Globalization: The Poor, Christian Mission, and Our Hyperconnected World (Mission in Global Community). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, Mission to the West Grams, Rollin. Mission to the West. Unpublished, Frost, Michael. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 st Century Church. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, Kirk, J. Andrew and Kevin Vanhoozer. To Stake a Claim: Mission and the Western Crisis of Knowledge. New York: Orbis Books, Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World (After Christendom). Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, ISBN: Pp Mission in Islamic Contexts Grams, Rollin. Divergent Paths. Unpublished, Sookhdeo, Patrick. Dawa: The Islamic Strategy for Reshaping the Modern World. Isaac Pub., Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC. Mission to the Jews Adna, J. and H. Kvalbein, eds. The Mission of the Early Church to Jews and Gentiles. WUNT 127. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Grams, Rollin. Faith Arising. Unpublished, 2016 (and in process: chapters are available). Bock, Darrell L. and M. Glaser, eds. To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History. Grand Rapids: Kregel, Feldman, Louis H. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World. Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, The Practice of Missions Bormann, Lukas, K. Del Tredici, and A. Standhartinger, eds. Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World. FS Dieter Georgi. Leiden: Brill, 1994 Bowers, W. Paul. Religious Propaganda in the First Century. NT 22 (1980): Chesnutt, Randall D. From Death to Life: A Descriptive and Comparative Study of Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth. JSPSup 16. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, Chester, Stephen J. Conversion at Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul s Theology and the Corinthian Church. Studies of the New Testament and Its World. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2003 Engel, James F. and William A Dyrness. Changing the Mind of Missions. Where Have We Gone Wrong? Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Escobar, Samuel. A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, Gehring, Roger. Studie Hausgemeinde und Mission: Die Bedeutung antiker Jäuser und Hausgemeinden von Jesus bis Paulus. BWM 9. Giessen: Brunnen, Goodman, M. Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Kasdorf, H. and F. Walldorf, eds. Werdet meine Zeugen: Weltmission im Horizont von Theologie und Geschichte. Holzgerlingen: Hänssler, Kirk, J. Andrew. Mission under Scrutiny: Confronting Contemporary Challenges. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press,

16 Nock, Arthur Darby. Conversion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Peace, R. V. Conversion in the New Testament: Paul and the Twelve. Grand Rapids, Cambridge, UK: W. B. Eerdmans, Plummer, Robert L. and J. M. Terry, eds. Paul s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. Edited by. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, Plummer, Robert L. Paul s Understanding of the Church s Mission: Did the Apostle Paul Expect the Early Church to Evangelize? Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, Plummer, Robert L. and John Mark Terry, eds. Paul s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, Reinbold, Wolfgang. Propaganda und Mission im ältesten Christentum: Ein Untersuchung zu den Modalitäten der Ausbreitung der frühen Kirche. FRLANT 188. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Rhoads, D. M. Network for Mission: The Social System of the Jesus Movement as Depicted in the Narrative of the Gospel of Mark. ANRW II.26.2, Smith, David. Mission After Christendom. Dartmon, Longman, & Todd, Wilckens, Ulrich. Die Missionsreden der Apostelgeschichte. Form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen. WMANT 5. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1974 [1961]. Winter, Bruce. The Entries and Ethics of Orators and Paul (1 Thessalonians ), Tyndale Bulletin 44.1 (1993: 1-32). Online at: df (accessed June 25, 2014), Wright, Christopher J. H., The Mission of God s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church s Mission. Biblical Theology for Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Missions Hiebert, Paul. Anthropological Insights for Missionaries. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Hiebert, Paul. The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Howell, Brian M. and Jenell Williams Paris. Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Lingenfelter, Sherwood G. Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships, 2 nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, Bibliographies Donovan, Vincent. Christianity Rediscovered. London: SCM Press, Grams, Rollin. Stewards of Grace: A Reflective Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa, Euguene, OR: Wipf & Stock, [Available on Kindle.] Laszlo, Marilyn and Franklin Graham. Mission Possible: The Wonderful Story of God and a Wycliffe Translator in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea. Tyndale House, Olson, Bruce. Bruchko: The Astonishing Story of a 19-Year Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe. Charisma House,

17 Syllabus Addendum Academic Standards Cheating and plagiarism are considered serious breaches of personal and academic integrity. Cheating involves, but is not necessarily limited to, the use of unauthorized sources of information during an examination or the submission of the same (or substantially same) work for credit in two or more courses without the knowledge and consent of the instructors. Plagiarism involves the use of another person s distinctive ideas or words, whether published or unpublished, and representing them as one s own instead of giving proper credit to the source. Plagiarism can also involve over dependence on other source material for the scope and substance of one s writing. Such breaches in academic standards often result in a failing grade as well as other corrective measures. For more information, please consult the Student Handbook. ADA Policy The seminary complies with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. A student with a qualifying and authenticated disability who is in need of accommodations should petition the seminary in accordance with the stated guidelines in the Student Handbook. Cancellation of Class In the event the seminary has to cancel a class meeting (impending storm, professor illness, etc.), the Registration Office will send out an (via the GCTS account) notification to all students registered in the respective course. If the cancelation occurs the day of the scheduled meeting, the Registration Office will also attempt to contact students via their primary phone contact on record. The professor will contact the students (via GCTS account) regarding makeup. If a weekend class is cancelled, the class will be made up during the scheduled Make-Up weekend (see the academic calendar for the designated dates). For more info, consult your Student Handbook. Extension Policy Arrangements for submission of late work at a date on or before the end date for the semester as noted on the seminary s Academic Calendar are made between the student and professor. Formal petition to the Registration Office is not required in this case. This includes arrangements for the rescheduling of final exams. However, course work (reading and written) to be submitted after the publicized end date for the semester must be approved by the Registration Office. An extension form, available online, must be submitted to the Registration Office prior to the stated date. Requests received after this date will either be denied or incur additional penalty. For a full discussion of this policy, please consult the Student Handbook. Grades Faculty have six weeks from the course work due date to submit a final grade. Grades are posted on-line within twenty-four hours of receipt from the professor. Students are expected to check their CAMS student portal in order to access posted grades (unless instructed otherwise). Those individuals who need an official grade report issued to a third party should put their request in writing to the Registration Office. 17

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