Bibliography: Theology of the City - through 1995

Armstrong, James

1981    From the Underside: Evangelism from a Third World Vantage Point. Maryknoll: Orbis.

Augustine, St.

1948    The City of God. New York: Hafner Publishing Company.

Aulen, Gustaf

1969    Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Ideas of the Atonement. New York.

Bailey, Wilfred M. and William K. McElvaney

1970    Christ's Suburban Body. Nashville: Abingdon Press.

Baird, William

1964    The Corinthian Church: A Biblical Approach to Urban Culture. New York: Abingdon Press.

Bakke, Raymond

1979    "Theology of the City" in Metro-Ministry. David C. Cook.

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Bakke, Ray and Jim Hart

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Banfield, Edward C.

1970    The Heavenly City. Boston: Little Brown & Company.

1974    The Unheavenly City Revisited. Boston: Little Brown & Company.

Barclay, William

1968    The King and the Kingdom. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press.

1971    Ethics in a Permissive Society. New York: Harper & Row.

1975    The Plain Man's Guide to Ethics. London: Collins Fontana Books.

Barrett, David B.

1986    World-Class Cities and World Evangelization. Birmingham: New Hope Publishers.  

Benjamin, Don C.

1893    Deuteronomy and City Life: A Form of Criticism of the Texts with the World City in Deuteronomy. 4:41-26:19.

Berger, Peter L.

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Blailock, E. M.

1965    Cities of the New Testament. Westwood, NJ: Revell.

Boerma, Conrad

1978    The Rich, the Poor, and the Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Boyer, Paul

1978    Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920. Cambridge: Harvard.

Bright, John

1978    The Kingdom of God. Nashville: Abingdon.

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1966    The Secular City Debate. New York: Macmillan.

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1983    Urban Ministry. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Conn, Harvey

1982    Evangelism: Doing Justice and Preaching Grace. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

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Costas, Orlando

1982    Christ Outside the Gate. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Cox, Harvey

1965    Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective. New York: Macmillan.

1984    Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Post-Modern Theology. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Dayton, Edward R., and David A. Frazer

1980    Planning Strategies for World Evangelization. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Dayton, Edward and Samuel Wilson, eds.

1982    Unreached People's '82: Focus on Urban Peoples. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook.

DeRidder, Richard R.

1979    Discipling the Nations. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.

Douglas, Mary and Steven M. Tipton, eds.

1983    Religion in America: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age. Boston: Beacon Press.

Driggers, B. Carlisle

1979    Models of Metropolitan Ministry. Nashville: Broadman.

Drummond, Henry

1982    The City Without a Church: An Address. New York: Crowell.

DuBose, Francis M.

1978    How Churches Grow in an Urban World. Nashville: Broadman Press.

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1896    The Life and Times of Jesus The Messiah. II Vols. New York: Longmans, Green & Company.

Ellison, Craig W., ed.

1974    The Urban Mission. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Ellul, Jacques

1964    The Technological Society. New York: Vintage Books.

1974    The Meaning of the City. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

1975    The New Demons. New York: Seabury Press.

Engen, Charles van

1981    The Growth of the True Church: An Analysis of the Ecclesiology of Church Growth Theory. Amsterdam.

Engen Charles Van, and Jude Tiersma, eds.

1994    God So Loves the City. Pasadena: MARC.

Foster, Richard

1978    Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth. San Francisco: Harper and Row.

Freire, Paulo

1970    Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Herder and Herder.

Frenchak, David J. and Sharrel Keyes

1979    Metro-Ministry: Ways and Means for the Urban Church. David C. Cook.

Frenchak, David J. and Clinton E. Stockwell

1984    The Kingdom of God in the Secular City. Covenant Press.

Gibbs, Eddie

1977    Urban Church Growth: Clues from South America and Britain. Bramcote, Notts: Grove Books.

Green, Michael

1970    Evangelism in the Early Church. Eerdmans.

Greenway, Roger S.

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1973    An Urban Strategy for Latin America. Grand Rapids: Baker.

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1976    Guidelines for Urban Church Planting. Grand Rapids: Baker Book.

1978    Apostles to the City. Baker.

1984    "The Homeless in Our Streets: How Can the Church Minister to Them?" Urban Mission. Sept. 1984.

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Greenway, Roger S., ed.

1979    Discipling the City: Theological Reflections on Urban Mission. Grand Rapids: Baker.

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Hannerz, Ulf

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Hargleroad, Bobbie Wells, ed.

1983    Struggle to be Human: Stories of Urban-Industrial Mission. Geneva: WWC.

Jones, E. Stanley

1972    The Unshakeable Kingdom and the Unchangable Person. Nashville: Abingdon.

Joslin, Roy

1982    Urban Harvest. Hertfordshire, UK: Evangelical Press.

Kane, J. Herbert

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1980    "Christian Witness to Large Cities." Raymond J. Bakke, miniconsultation chairman.

Lausanne Occasional Paper #22

1980    "Christian Witness to the Urban Poor." Jim Punton,   miniconsultation chairman.

McConnell, C. Douglas

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Meeks, Wayne

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Moberg, David

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Monsma, Timothy

1979    An Urban Strategy for Africa. Pasadena: William Carey.

Newbigin, Leslie

1980    Signs of the Kingdom. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Oostdyk, Harv

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Pasquariello, Ronald D., Donald W Shriver, Jr., and Alan Geyer

1982    Redeeming the City Theology, Politics, and Urban Policy. New York: Pilgrim.

Ramsay, W. M.

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Rosenberg, Carroll Smith

1971    Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York City Mission Movement, 1812-1870. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Sahlin, Monte C.

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Schaeffer, Francis A.

1981    Death in the City. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press.

1982    A Christian Manifesto. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books.

Schaller, Lyle E.

1965    Planning for Protestantism in Urban America. New York: Abingdon.

Sheppard, David

1974    Built as a City: God and the Urban World Today. Hodder and Stoughton.

Sider, Ronald J.

1965    "Evangelism, Salvation, and Social Justice." International Review of Missions. 64.255:251-67.

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Sine, Tom

1981    The Mustard Seed Conspiracy. Waco: Word.

1983    The Church in Response to Human Need. Monrovia.

Smedes, Lewis B.

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Snyder, Howard A.

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Trueblood, D. Elton

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Vincent, John J.

1981    Starting All Over Again: Hints of Jesus in the City. Geneva: World Council of Churches.

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1963    The New Creation as Metropolis. New York: Macmillan.

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Bibliography: Ethnicity and Church Planting – up to 1992

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1983    Arabs in the New World. Detroit: Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies.

Allport, Gordon

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Kim, Illson

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