Urban Ministry Bibliography

Bryan Stone

 

Bakke, Ray

1987

The Urban Christian: Effective Ministry in Today's Urban World. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

1997

A Theology as Big as the City. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press

Bradbury, Nicholas

1989

City of God? Pastoral Care in the Inner City. London: SPCK

Carle, Robert D. and Louis A. DeCarlo, Jr.

1997

Signs of Hope in the City: Ministries of Community Renewal. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press.

Christensen, Michael J.

1988

City Streets City People. Nashville, Abingdon Press.

Claerbaut, David

1983

Urban Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Conn, Harvie M.

1987

A Clarified Vision for Urban Mission: Dispelling the Urban Stereotypes. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

1994

The American City and the Evangelical Church: An Historical Overview. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Dudley, Carl S.

1991

Basic Steps Toward Community Ministry. Washington, D.C.: Alban Institute.

1996

Next Steps in Community Ministry: Hands-on Leadership. Washington, D.C.: Alban Institute.

Edington, Howard

1996

Downtown Church: The Heart of the City. Nashville, Abingdon Press.

Ellison, Craig W. and Maynard, Edward S.

1992

Healing for the City: Counseling for the Urban Setting. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing Company.

Elliston, Edgar J. and J. Timothy Kauffman,

1993

Developing Leaders for Urban Ministries. New York: Peter Lang.

Fischer, Claude S.

1984

The Urban Experience. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Janovich.

Freedman, Samuel G.

1993

Upon This Rock. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Goings, Kenneth W. and Raymond A Mohl, eds.

1996

The New African American Urban History. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Green, Clifford J., ed.

1996

Churches, Cities, and Human Community: Urban Ministry in the United States, 1945-1985. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Greenway, Roger S.

1989

Cities, Mission's New Frontier. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

1992

Discipling the City: A Comprehensive Approach to Urban Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

Harper, Nile

1999

Urban Churches, Vital Signs: Beyond Charity toward Justice. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Harris, Forrest E.

1993

Ministry for Social Crisis: Theology and Praxis in the Black Church Tradition. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.

Hartley, Loyde H.

1992

Cities and Churches: An International Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: ATLA and Scarecrow Press.

Holmes, Urban T. III.

1971

The Future Shape of Ministry: A Theological Projection. NY: Seabury Press,

Jacobs, Allen R.

1985

Looking at Cities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kretzmann, John P. and John L. McKnight.

1993

Building Communities from Inside Out: A Path Towards Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University.

Linthicum, Robert. C.

1990

Empowering the Poor. Monrovia, CA: MARC

1991

City of God, City of Satan: A Biblical Theology of the Urban Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

1995

Signs of Hope in the City. Monrovia, CA: MARC.

Lupton, Robert D.

1989

Theirs is The Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

1993

Return Flight: Community Development Through Reneighboring Our Cities. Atlanta: FCS Urban Ministries.

McKnight, John

1995

The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits New York: BasicBooks.

Meeks, Wayne

1983

The First Urban Christians. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Meyers, Eleanor Scott, ed.

1992

Envisioning the New City: A Reader on Urban Ministry. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press.

Miller, Kenneth R. and Mary Elizabeth Wilson

1985

The Church That Cares: Identifying and Responding to Needs in Your Community. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press.

Myers, Bryant L.

1999

Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books/World Vision.

Nunes, John and Harold Dean Trulear

1999

Voices from the City: Issues and Images of Urban Preaching. Concordia.

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

1982

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

Pierce, Gregory F.

1984

Activism That Makes Sense: Congregations and Community Organizing. New York: Paulist Press.

Perkins, John M.

1993

Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

1995

Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together & Doing It Right. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Reed, Gregory I.

1994

Economic Empowerment Through the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Recinos, Harold J., ed.

1992

Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep. Nashville: Abingdon.

Ronsvall, John and Sylvia Ronsvall

1992

The Poor Have Faces. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Roseman, Curtis C., Hans Dieter Laux, and Günter Thieme, eds.

1996

EthniCity: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Change in Modern Cities. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield,

Sample, Tex

1993

Hard Living People & Mainstream Christians. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.

Sassen, Saskia

1991

The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Schaller, Lyle E.

1993

Center City Churches: The New Urban Frontier. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.

Sedgwick, P. H., ed.

1995

God in the City: Essays and Reflections from the Archbishop's Urban Theology Group. London: Mowbray.

Sherman, Amy

1997

Restorers of Hope: Reaching the Poor in Your Community. New York: Crossway.

Short, John Rennie

1996

The Urban Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture and Powers. Cambridge: Blackwell.

Smith Michael Peter, and Joe R. Feagin, eds.

1995

The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Stone, Bryan P.

1996

Compassionate Ministry: Theological Foundations. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.

Stumme, Wayne

1991

The Experience of Hope: Mission and Ministry in Changing Urban Communities. Minneapolis: Augsburg.

Taylor, Clarence.

1994

The Black Churches of Brooklyn. NY: Columbia University Press.

Teaford, John C.

1990

The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.

Tonna, Benjamin

1985

A Gospel for the Cities: A Socio-Theology of Urban Ministry. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.

Van Engen, Charles and Jude Tiersma, eds.

1994

God So Loves the City: Seeking a Theology for Urban Mission. Monrovia, CA: MARC.

Villafañe, Eldin

1995

Seek the Peace of the City: Reflections on Urban Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Warren, Rochelle B. and Donald I.

1977

The Neighborhood Organizer’s Handbook. University of Notre Dame Press.

Williams, Cecil with Rebecca Laird

1992

No Hiding Place: Empowerment for Our Troubled Communities. New York: HarperSanFrancisco.

Yamamori, Tetsunao, Bryant L. Myers, and Kenneth L. Luscombe, eds.

1998

Serving with the Urban Poor. Monrovia, CA: MARC.