Updated Bibliography on Missional Hermeneutics

Missional Hermeneutics

Barram, Michael. “The Bible, mission, and social location: Toward a missional hermeneutic.” Interpretation 61 (2007): 42-58.

Barram, Michael. Mission and Moral Reflection in Paul. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Bauckham, Richard. The Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.

Beeby, Harry D. Canon and Mission. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Beeby, Harry D., “A Missional Approach to Renewed Interpretation” in Renewing Biblical Interpretation, eds Craig Bartholomew, Colin Greene, and Karl Möller. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000, 268-83.

Bosch, David J. “Towards a Hermeneutic for ‘Biblical Studies and Mission’” Mission Studies 3.2 (1986): 65-79.

Brownson, James. Speaking the Truth in Love: New Testament Resources for a Missional Hermeneutic. Christian Mission and Modern Culture. Continuum, 1998.

Burnett, D.G. The Healing of the Nations: The Biblical Basis of the Mission of God. Revised Edition. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1996.

Gardner, P., Wright, C. and Green, C. (eds) Fanning the Flame: Bible, Cross and Mission. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.

Glasser, A.F., Van Engen, C.E., Gilliland, D.S. and Redford, S.B. Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003.

Goheen, Michael W. “Continuing Steps Toward a Missional Hermeneutic” Fideles 3 (2008): 49-99.

Greene, Colin and Martin Robinson. Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination Faith in an Emerging Culture. Paternoster, 2008.

Guder, Darrel C. (ed). Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Gospel and Culture Network. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,1998.

Guder, Darrell C. “Missional Pastors in Maintenance Churches” Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives for United Methodist Seminarians 31.3 (2005): 4.

Hunsberger, George R. “Proposals for a Missional Hermeneutic: Mapping the Conversation” Gospel and Our Culture Network Newsletter eseries 2 (2009): cn.org/resources/newsletters/2009/01/gospel-and-our-culture

Kaiser, Walter C. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to thte Nations. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. and O’Brien, P.T. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001.

Martin-Archard, R. A Light to the Nations: A Study of the Old Testament Conception of Israel’s Mission to the World. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962.

Okoye, James C. Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2006.

Parsons, Michael. Text and Task: Scripture and Mission. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2006.

Peskett, Howard and Ramachandra, V. The Message of Mission. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

Rowley, H.H. The Missionary Message of the Old Testament. London: The Carey Press, 1945.

Stone, Bryan. Evangelism after Christendom. Grand Rapids: Brazos. 2007.

Wright, Christopher .J.H. ‘Covenant: God’s mission through God’s people’ in J.A. Grant and A.I. Wilson (eds.) The God of Covenant: Biblical, Theological and Contemporary Perspectives. Leicester: Apollos, 2005.

Wright, Christopher J.H. “Mission as Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology” in Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation, Craig Bartholomew et al (eds), 102-43.

Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006.

Wright, Christopher J.H. “The Old Testament and Christian Mission” Evangel 14 (1996): 37-43.

Wright, Christopher .J.H. Truth with a Mission: Reading Scripture Missiologically. Cambridge: Grove Books, 2005.

Encounters E-Zine (Vol 29 - June 2009). Focuses on a lecture by Christopher Wright: “Prophet to the Nations: Missional Reflections on the Book of Jeremiah” and responses to it by scholars and practitioners.

Unpublished Papers Presented at SBL Sessions on Missional Hermeneutics:
Colin Yuckman. (presented) 2005. An Ulterior Gospel: The Mission of Critical Hermeneutics and the Critical Hermeneutics of Mission.

James Miller. (presented) 2005. Missional Hermeneutics: An Experiment in Implementation and Reflection.

Other Websites with Regular Postings on Missional Hermeneutics:

Eddie Arthur

Michael Barram


Tim Davy

Michael Gorman

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