This section is to highlight books, articles, and websites that will help the researcher in Bible and mission. If you have any suggestions do let me know…
Books and articles
Bauckham, R. ‘Mission as Hermeneutic for Scriptural Interpretation’, Currents in World Christianity Position Paper, Number 106 (1999).
Bauckham, R. The Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2004).
Beeby, H.D. Canon and Mission (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999).
Blauw, J. The Missionary Nature of the Church: A Survey of the Biblical Theology of Mission (London: Lutterworth Press, 1962).
Brueggemann, W. Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997). Ch. 16: ‘The Nations as Yahweh’s Partner’.
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).
Goldingay, J. Old Testament Theology, Volume 2: Israel’s Faith (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006). Ch. 8: ‘The Nations’.
Grams, R.G, Marshall, I.H., Penner, P.F. and Routledge, R. (eds.) Bible and Mission: A Conversation Between Biblical Studies and Missiology (Schwarzenfeld: Neufeld Verlag, 2008).
Hahn, F. Mission in the New Testament (London: SCM Press, 1965).
Horton, R.F. The Bible A Missionary Book, Second Edition (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1908).
Kane, J.H. Christian Missions in Biblical Perspective (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976).
Kostenberger, A.J. and O’Brien, P.T. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2001).
Lapham, H.A. The Bible as Missionary Handbook (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1925).
Larkin, Jr., W.J. and Williams, J.F. (eds.), Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1998).
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).
McLean, A. Where the Book speaks; or, Mission studies in the Bible (London: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1907).
Noble, P. ‘Israel Among the Nations’ in Horizons in Biblical Theology: An International Dialogue, 15:1 (June, 1993), pp.56-82.
Okoye, J.C. Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2006).
Parsons, M. Text and Task: Scripture and Mission (Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2006).
Peskett, H. and Ramachandra, V. The Message of Mission (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2003).
Peters, G.W. A Biblical Theology of Missions (Chicago: Moody Press, 1972).
Piper, J. Let the Nations be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions, Revised and Expanded edition (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2003).
Rowley, H.H. Israel’s Mission to the World (London: SCM Press, 1939).
Rowley, H.H. The Missionary Message of the Old Testament (London: The Carey Press, 1945).
Senior, D. and Stuhlmueller, C. The Biblical Foundations for Mission (London: SCM Press, 1983).
Schnabel, E.J. Early Christian Mission, Volume 1: Jesus and the Twelve (Leicester: Apollos, 2004).
Schnabel, E.J. Early Christian Mission, Volume 2: Paul and the Early Church (Leicester: Apollos, 2004).
Seitz, C.R. Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001). Ch. 11 ‘The Old Testament, Mission, and Christian Scripture), pp.145-157.
Storr, V.F. The Missionary Genius of the Bible (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924).
Stumme, W. (ed) Bible and Mission (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1986).
Warman, F.S.G. Missions and the Minor Prophets: A Series of Bible Studies (London: Church Missionary Society, 1909).
Wright, C.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, C.J.H. ‘Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology’ in C. Bartholomew, M. Healy, K. Möller and R. Parry, Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), pp.102-143.
Wright, C.J.H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2006).
Wright, C.J.H. ‘Truth with a Mission: Reading Scripture Missiologically’ in P. Gardner, C. Wright and C. Green (eds.), Fanning the Flame: Bible, Cross and Mission (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), pp.221-239.
Wright, C.J.H. Truth with a Mission: Reading Scripture Missiologically (Cambridge: Grove Books, 2005).
Web resources
Encounters Mission Ezine – Redcliffe College’s quarterly online topical mission journal.
International Journal of Frontiers Missions - the journal of the International Society for Frontier Missiology
Internet archive – online books to read or download.
