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January 2008

 

BIBD 672.J1 Intro to Graduate Studies, Churchill

David R. Stewart, The Literature of Theology: A Guide for Students and Pastors(Westminster, 2003); ISBN: 9780664223427

 

William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style (Pearson, 2000); ISBN: 9780205309023

 

Kate L. Turabian, Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (UCP, 2007); ISBN: 9780226823379

 

Nancy Vyhmeister, Quality Research Papers (Zondervan, 2001); ISBN: 9780310239451

 

Craig Churchill, BIBD 672 Course Reader

 

(Recommended)

David R. Bauer, An Annotated Guide to Biblical Resources for Ministry (Hendrickson, 2003); ISBN: 9781565637238

 

BIBL 640.J1 Women in the Old Testament, Pemberton

Alice Ogden Bellis, Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible (Westminster, 2007); ISBN: 9780664230289

 

Athalya Brenner, I am...Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories (Fortress, 2005); ISBN: 9780800636654

 

Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible (WaterBrook Press, 1999); ISBN: 9781578563937

 

Carol Meyers, Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Oxford, 1988); ISBN: 9780195065817

 

Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Just Wives? Stories of Power & Survival in the Old Testament & Today (Westminster, 2003); ISBN: 9780664226602

 

Elisabeth Meier Tetlow, Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society: The Ancient Near East (Continuum, 2004); ISBN: 9780826416285

 

BIBM 640.J1 Theology and Ministry in Times of Crisis, Fry

Phillip Yancey, Disappointment with God (Zondervan, 1997); ISBN: 9780310517818

 

Virgil Fry, Rekindled: Warmed by Fires of Hope (Leafwood, 2007); ISBN: 9780891125150

 

Virgil Fry, Disrupted: Finding God in Illness and Loss (Leafwood, 2007); ISBN: 9780891125167

 

David Switzer, Pastoral Care Emergencies (Fortress, 2000); ISBN: 9780800632281

 

BIBM 648.J1 Christian Spiritual Formation, Wray

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (InterVarsity, 2005); ISBN: 9780830833306

 

Eugene H. Peterson, Eat This Book (Eerdmans, 2006); ISBN: 9780802829481

 

Henri Nouwen, Way of the Heart (Random, 1981); ISBN: 9780345463357

 

David Wray, BIBM 648 Course Reader

 

Craig Van Gelder, Ministry of the Missional Church (Baker, 2007); ISBN: 9780801091391

  

Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace (Baker, 2006); ISBN: 9780801065552

 

BIBM 670.J1 Worship, Reese

Robert Webber, Planning Blended Worship (Abingdon, 1998); ISBN: 9780687032235

 

James White, A Brief History of Christian Worship (Abingdon, 1993); ISBN: 9780687034147

 

Larry Hurtado, At The Origins of Christian Worship (Eerdmans, 1999); ISBN: 9780802847492

 

John Mark Hicks, Come to the Table (ACU Press, 2002); ISBN: 9780971428973

 

Cornelius Plantinga, Discerning Spirits (Eerdmans, 2003); ISBN: 9780802839992

 

Barbara Brown-Taylor, Leaving Church (Harper One, 2007); ISBN: 9780060872632

 

Spring 2008

 

BGRK 612.01 Elementary Greek II, Childers

Brian Blount, Preaching Mark in Two Voices (Westminster, 2002); ISBN: 0664223931

 

L. William Countryman, Read It In Greek (Eerdmans, 1993); ISBN: 0802806651

 

Sakae Kubo, Reader's Greek-English Lexicon (Zondervan, 1975); ISBN: 0310269202

 

David Garland, Mark: NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 1996); ISBN: 0310493501

 

Warren Trenchard, Student's Complete Vocabulary Guide (Zondervan 1992); ISBN: 0310533414

 

Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece (Deutsche Bibelstiftung, 1979); ISBN: 3438051001

 

BGRK 625.01 Seminar in the Epistles, Thompson

Hans-Josef Klauck, Ancient Letters and the New Testament (Baylor, 2006); ISBN: 9781932792409

 

BHEB 622.01 Elementary Syriac, Childers

Wheeler Thackston, Introduction to Syriac (IBEX, 1999); ISBN: 0936347988

 

Sebastian Brock, Introduction to Syriac Studies (Gorgias, 2006); ISBN: 1593333498

 

Sebastian Brock, The Bible in the Syriac Tradition (Gorgias, 2006); ISBN: 1593333005

 

BHEB 672.01 Intro to Hebrew II, Ashlock

William Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of Old Testament (Eerdmans, 1971); ISBN: 9780802834133

 

Miles Van Pelt, Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew (Zondervan, 2003); ISBN: 9780310250722

 

Biblia Hebraica (Amer Bible, 1997); ISBN: 9783438052193

 

BIBD 647.01 Research Problems in Theology, Aquino

William Alston, Beyond Justification: Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation (Cornell, 2006); ISBN: 0891473322

 

Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Wiliams, and Gregory G. Colomb, The Craft of Research, 2nd Ed (University of Chicago, 2003); ISBN: 0226065685

 

Jonathan Kvanvig, The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding (Cambridge, 2007); ISBN: 05210378767

 

A.P. Martinich, Philosophical Writing, 3rd Ed. (Blackwell, 2005); ISBN: 1405131675

 

Patricia T. O'Conner, Words Fail Me (Harvest, 2000); ISBN: 0156010879

 

Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments, 3rd Ed. (Hackett, 2000); ISBN: 0872205525

 

BIBD 661.01 Theological Explorations: Patristic Epistemology, Aquino

Robert Adams, A Theory of Virtue (Oxford UP, 2006); ISBN: 0199207518

 

Maximus Confessor, Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1985); ISBN: 0809126591

 

Maximus the Confessor, in The Early Church Fathers (Routledge, 1996); ISBN: 0415118468

 

St. Maximus the Confessor, On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ (St. Vladimir's, 2003); ISBN: 088141249X

 

Norman Russell, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (Oxford, 2006); ISBN: 0199205973

 

Robert Roberts and Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology (Oxford, 2007); ISBN: 9780199283675

 

Linda T. Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge (Cambridge, 1996); ISBN: 0521578264

 

BIBD 678.01 Intro to Philosophy of Religion, Aquino

William J. Abraham, Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation (Eerdmans, 2006); ISBN: 9780802829580

 

William P. Alston, Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Cornell, 1991); ISBN: 0801481554

 

Paul Boghossian, Fear of Knowledge (Oxford, 2007); ISBN: 9780199230419

 

John Henry Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (Notre Dame, 1979); ISBN: 0268010005

 

William Wainwright, Religion and Morality (Ashgate, 2005); ISBN: 0754616320

 

Mark Wynn, Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling (Cambridge, 2005); ISBN: 052159892

 

Linda T. Zagzebski, Philosophy of Religion, A Historical Introduction (Blackwell, 2007); ISBN: 9781405118729

 

BIBH 652.01, W1 History of Christianity I, II, Foster

Steven Ozment, Age of Reform 1250-1550 (Triliteral, 1980); ISBN: 9780300027600

 

Timothy Ware, Orthodox Church (Peng USA, 1993); ISBN: 9780140146561

 

William Manchester, A World Lit Only By Fire (Hachette, 1993); ISBN: 9780316545563

 

Charles Anderson, Augsburg Historical Atlas of Christianity in the Middle Ages and Reformation (Augsburg, 1967); ISBN: 9780806613178

 

Christian History, Pietism CH010 (Christian History)

 

Christian History, William Carey CH036 (Christian History)

 

Christian History, Fundamentalism CH055 (Christian History)

 

Christian History, The Rise of Pentecostalism CH058 (Christian History)

 

Christian History, The African Apostles CH079 (Christian History)

 

BIBL 611.01 Old Testament Theology, Willis, J.

Gerhard Hasel, Old Testament Theology - Revised and Expanded (Eerdmans, 1991); ISBN: 9780802805379

 

Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament (Augsburg, 1997); ISBN: 9780800637651

 

BIBL 620.01, Thompson

Luke Timothy Johnson, Writings of the New Testament (Augsburg, 1999); ISBN: 9780800634391

 

BIBL 627.01 Biblical Exegesis, Willis, J.

Gordon Fee, New Testament Exegesis (Presbyterian, 2002); ISBN: 9780664223168

 

Steven L. McKenzie and Stephen R. Haynes, To Each its Own Meaning (Presbyterian, 1999); ISBN: 9780664257842

 

Douglas Stuart, Old Testament Exegesis (Presbyterian 2001); ISBN: 9780664223151

 

BIBL 661.E1, Corinthian Letters, Black

Richard Hays, 1 Corinthians (Interpretation), 1997; ISBN: 0804231443

 

Ben Witherington, Conflict and Community in Corinth, 1994; ISBN: 0853646228 

 

BIBL 662.01 Backgrounds of the NT and Early Christianity, Willis, W.

Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Eerdmans, 2003); ISBN: 9780802822215

 

Keith Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome (Camb, 1994); ISBN: 9780521378871

 

Flavius Josephus, Jewish War (Peng USA, 1981); ISBN: 9780140444209

 

Suetonius, Twelve Caesars (Peng USA, 1979); ISBN: 9780140449211

 

BIBM 609.01 Healthcare Ministry, Patrick

Lawrence Reimer, Hospital Handbook (Morehouse, 1988); ISBN: 9780819214706

 

George Bowman III, Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family (Haworth, 1998); ISBN: 9780789002631

 

Robert Dykstra, Images of Pastoral Care (CBP, 2005); ISBN: 9780827216242

 

BIBM 616.E1 Narrative Evangelism, Flanders

Bryan Stone, Evangelism After Christendom (Brazos, 2007); ISBN: 9781587431944

 

William Abraham, The Logic of Evangelism (Eerdmans, 1989); ISBN: 9780802804334

 

Joel Green and Mark Baker, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross (InterVarsity, 2000); ISBN: 9780830815715

 

Richard Peace, Conversion in the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1999); ISBN: 9780802842350

 

Alan Kreider, The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom (Wipf and Stock, 2007); ISBN: 9781556353932

 

Brad Kallenburg, Live to Tell (Brazos Press, 2002); ISBN: 9781587430503

 

Richard Peace, Holy Conversation (IVP Connect, 2006); ISBN: 9780830811199

 

BIBM 629.01 Field Education, Sensing

Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Method in Ministry (RLPG, 1995); ISBN: 9781556128066

 

BIBM 645.01, E1 Managing Conflict in Churches, Siburt

Hugh Halverstadt, Managing Church Conflict (Presbyterian, 1991); ISBN: 9780664251857

 

John Kotter, Leading Change (Perseus D, 1996); ISBN: 9780875847474

 

Ron Susek, Firestorm (Baker Publishing, 1999); ISBN: 9780801090912

 

Gilbert Rendle, Behavioral Covenants in Congregations (Alban, 1999); ISBN: 9781566992091

 

Charles Siburt, BIBM 645 Course Reader (Copy Stop)

 

Peter Steinke, Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times (Alban, 2006); ISBN: 9781566993289

 

Peter Steinke, Healthy Congregations (Alban); ISBN: 9781566993302

 

BIBM 648.01 Christian Spiritual Formation, Wray

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (InterVarsity, 2005); ISBN: 9780830833306

 

Eugene H. Peterson, Eat This Book (Eerdmans, 2006); ISBN: 9780802829481

 

Henri Nouwen, Way of the Heart (Random, 1981); ISBN: 9780345463357

 

David Wray, BIBM 648 Course Reader

 

Craig Van Gelder, Ministry of the Missional Church (Baker, 2007); ISBN: 9780801091391

 

Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace (Baker, 2006); ISBN: 9780801065552

 

BIBM 652.01 Supervised Practice of Ministry II, Sensing

Reinhold Niebuhr, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (Ingram, 1980); ISBN: 9780664251642

 

BIBM 656.01 Supervised Practice of Ministry VI, Sensing

Herbert Anderson, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals (Wiley, 1997); ISBN: 9780787956486

 

BIBM 679.01 Theological Reflection in Practice, Flanders

Nancey Murphy, Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001); ISBN: 1579107729

 

BIBM 681.01 Preaching Skills and Strategies, Johnson

Paul Scott Wilson, The Practice of Preaching (Abingdon); ISBN: 9780687645275

 

Paul Scott Wilson, God Sense: Reading the Bible for Preaching (Abingdon); ISBN: 0687006325

 

Charles Campbell, The Word Before the Powers: An Ethic of Preaching (Westminster John Knox); ISBN: 0664222331

 

Thomas Troeger, Imagining a Sermon (Abingdon); ISBN: 0687186943

 

Jana Childers, Performing the Word: Preaching as Theatre (Abingdon); ISBN: 0687074231

 

BIBM 692.01 Church Curriculum, Sensing

Mary Boys, Educating in Faith; ISBN: 1556126689

 

Ronald Reed and Tony Johnson, Philosophical Documents in Education; ISBN: 0801315018

 

Richard Osmer, A Teachable Spirit; ISBN: 0664250793

 

BIBM 693.01 Church and Family Ministry, Kang-Hamilton

Diana Garland, Family Ministry (InterVarsity); ISBN: 0830815856

 

Craig Dykstra, Growing in the Life of Faith (WJK); ISBN: 066422758

 

Richard Hess, Family in the Bible (Baker Academic); ISBN: 0801026288

 

Jolene Roehlkepartain, Nurturing Faith in Families (Abingdon); ISBN: 0687049210

 

BMIS 653.01 Growth Strategies for Established Churches, Smith

David Allen, Getting Things Done (Penguin, 2002); ISBN: 0142000280

 

Ruth Haley Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence (InterVarsity, 2004); ISBN: 0830823867

 

Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (HarperOne, 1996); ISBN: 0060643617

 

Charles Kraft, Confronting Powerless Christianity (Chosen, 2002); ISBN: 0800793145

 

Patrick Lencioni, Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (Jossey-Bass, 2005); ISBN: 0787976377

 

Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations (Berkley Trade, 2004); ISBN: 0425193373

 

Pete Sommer, Getting Sent (InterVarsity, 1999); ISBN: 0830822186

 

Tony Stoltzfus, Leadership Coaching (BookSurge, 2005); ISBN: 1419610503

 

BMIS 672.01 World Religions, Mathews

Lewis Hopfe, Religions of the World (Prentice Hall, 2006); ISBN: 0132240459