Bibliography
An annotated bibliography compiled by the editor: bibliographies, journals, and books on the theology of mission as of 1961. Search the bibliography with the Search page (filter “Notes & references”).
1. BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Anderson, Gerald H. (compiler). Bibliography of the Theology of Missions in the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. revised and enlarged. New York: Missionary Research Library, 1960. Paperback.
Benz, Ernst and Nambara, Minoru. Das Christentum und die nicht-christlichen Hochreligionen: Begegnung und Auseinandersetzung. Eine Internationale Bibliographie. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1960. Paperback.An excellent bibliography of Christianity and the non-Christian religions; does not include Judaism.
Bibliografia Missionaria. Compilata dal P. Giovanni Rommerskirchen O.M.1., Bibliotecario della Pontificia Biblioteca Missionaria; coll’assistenza del P. Nicola Kowalsky O.M.I., Archivista della S.C. de Propaganda Fide; e del P. Giuseppe Metzler O.M.L, Professore del Pontificio Istituto Missionario. Rome: Pontificia- Universita di Propaganda Fide, Piazza di Spagna, 48. Paperback.This is an exhaustive bibliography of current Catholic literature; published annually. Section I deals with “Mission Theory.”
The International Review of Missions (London). Each issue (quarterly) contains the “International Missionary Bibliography,” which is the best bibliographical source for non-Roman Christians.
Het Missiewerk (Nijmegen). The last issue every year has a bibliographical survey of mission literature, compiled by Dr. cece Mulders, with primary attention to Catholic publications.
Parole et mission; revue de missionnaire (Paris). This Catholic quarterly has a bibliographical section in each issue.
Vriens, Livinus, O.F.M. Cap., with the collaboration of Disch, Anastasius, O.F.M. Cap., and Wils, J. Critical Bibliography of Missiology (Bibliographia ad Usum Seminariorum Vol. E 2.) Translated from the Dutch by Deodatus Tummers O.F.M. Nijmegen, Holland: Bestelcentrals der - V.S.K.B. Publ., 1960. Paperback.An admirable, annotated bibliography of Catholic missiological literature.
2. JOURNALS (with publishing addresses)
Canadian Journal of Theology. 75 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto ‘5 Ontario, Canada. Quarterly.
The Christian Century. 407 S. Dearborn St., Chicago 5, Ill. Weekly.
Christianity Today. 1014 Washington Building, Washington 5, D.C. Fortnightly.
Church History. (The American Society of Church History.) 520 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Quarterly.
The Ecumenical Review. World Council of Churches, 17 Route de Malagnou, Geneva, Switzerland; or 475 Riverside Drive, New York 27, N.Y. Quarterly.
Eglise Vivante. Société des Auxiliaires des Missions, 44 rue des Bernardins, Paris 5°, France; or 61 Boulevard Schreurs, Louvain, Belgium. Bimonthly.
Euntes Docete. Commentarii Pontificiae Universitatis de Propaganda Fide. Editiones Urbanianae, 16, via Urbano VIII, Rome, Italy. Quarterly.
Evangelische Missions-Magazin. Basler Missionsbuchhandlung G.m.b.H., Basel 3, Missionsstrasse, 21, Switzerland. Quarterly.
Evangelische Missions-Zeitschrift. Evang. Missionsverlag G.m.b.H., Stuttgart S., Heusteigstrasse, 34, Germany. Bimonthly.
De Heerbaan. Nederlandsche Zendingsraad, Amsterdam, Herengracht, 368, Netherlands. Bimonthly.
The Indian Journal of Theology. William Carey Road, Serampore, West Bengal, India. Quarterly.
The International Review of Missions. Edinburgh House, 2 Eaton Gate, London, S.W. 1, England; or 475 Riverside Drive, Room 440, New York 27, N.Y. Quarterly.
The Japan Christian Quarterly. Kyo Bun Kwan, 2 Ginza 4-chrome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Quarterly.
Het Missiewerk. Laan Copes van Cattenburch 127, ’s Gravenhage, Netherlands. Quarterly.
Le Monde non chrétien. 17, rue Saint-Antoine, Paris 4°, France. Quarterly.
The Muslim World. Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford 5, Conn. Quarterly.
National Christian Council Review. The Wesley Press, Post Box 37, Mysore City, India. Monthly.
Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft (Nouvelle Revue de science missionnaire). Seminary Schéneck/Beckenried, Switzerland. Quarterly.
Nordisk Missions Tidsskrift. Lohses forlag, Bernstorfisgade, 21, Copenhagen 5, Denmark. Quarterly.
Norsk Tidsskrift for Misjon. Egede Institute of Missionary Study and Research, Theresegt. 51 B., Oslo, Norway. Quarterly.
Occasional Bulletin. The Missionary Research Library, 3041 Broadway, New York 27, N.Y. Published 10-16 times each year.
Parole et mission; revue de théologie missionnaire. Editions du Cerf, 29, boulevard Latour-Maubourg, Paris 7°, France. Quarterly.
Religion and Society. Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Post Box No. 57, 19 Miller Road, Bangalore 1, India. Quarterly.
Religion in Life. 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville 3, Tenn. Quarterly.
The South East Asia Journal of Theology. 6 Mount Sophia, Singapore 9. Quarterly.
The Student World. World’s Student Christian Federation, 13, rue Calvin, Geneva, Switzerland; or National Student Christian Federation, 475 Riverside Drive, New York 27, N.Y. Quarterly.
Studia Missionalia. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Piazza della Pilotta, Rome, Italy. Annual.
Svensk Missionstidskrift. Domkyrkoplan, 2, Uppsala, Sweden. Quarterly.
Theology Today. P.O. Box 29, Princeton, N.J. Quarterly.
Worldmission. National Office of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N.Y. Quarterly.
Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft. Aschendorfische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Miinster/Westf., Germany. Quarterly.
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. Verlag E. J. Brill G.m.b.H., Koln, Haus am Friesenplatz, Germany. Quarterly.
3. THE BIBLICAL BASIS FOR THE CHRISTIAN MISSION
Baird, William. Paul’s Mission and Message. New York: Abingdon Press, 1960.
Bible, The Holy. Revised Standard Version. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1952.
Blauw, Johannes. Goden en Mensen: plaats en betekenis van de heidenen in de Heilige Schrift. Groningen: J. Niemeijer in Samenwerking met de Ned. Zendingsraad, 1950. (Bijdragen tot de Zendingswetenschap, III.) Paperback.A Biblical study of Christianity and the religions.
Brunner, Emil. Die Unentbehrlichkeit des Alten Testamentes für die missionierende Kirche. Basel: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1934. Missionsstudien, Heft 12.) Paperback.The indispensability of the Old Testament for the missionary y Church.
Carver, William O. The Bible a Missionary Message. New Merk: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1921.A Southern Baptist approach to the Biblical basis for missions.
Chirgwin, A. M. The Bible in World Evangelism. New York: Friendship Press, 1954. Paperback.The use of the Bible through the ages as an instrument of evangelism.
de Dietrich, Suzanne. The Witnessing Community. The Biblical Record of God's Purpose. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1958.Using the methods of Biblical theology, the author deals with the question of how God’s People should face the world of their time and how they should fulfill their function in it.
DeWolf, L. Harold. The Enduring Message of the Bible. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.A Biblical theology for laymen, with much illustration from the mission field and with relevance to the theology of mission.
Freytag, Walter. The Gospel and the Religions. London: SCM Press, 1957. (I.M.C. Research Pamphlets, No. 5.) Paperback. Original title: Das Rdtsel der Religionen und die Biblische Antwort. Wuppertal-Barmen: Jugenddienst-Verlag, [1957].A Biblical inquiry into the issues which arise in the confrontation between Christianity and the non-Christian religions.
Glover, Robert Hall. The Bible Basis of Missions. Los Angeles: Bible House of Los Angeles, 1946.A very influential book in conservative circles.
Henry, Carl F. H. (ed.). Revelation and the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1958.Written by leading authorities in the conservative evangelical tradition.
Jeremias, Joachim. Jesu Verheissung für die Vélker. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1956. (The Franz Delitzsch Lectures for 1953.) Translated into English by S. H. Hooke, Jesus’ Promise to the Nations. London: SCM Press; Naperville, Illinois: Alec R. Ailenson, Inc., 1958. (Studies in Biblical Theology, No. 24.) Paperback.An important study for the theology of mission, dealing with the place of the Gentile nations in the promises of Jesus; includes valuable bibliographical references.
Love, Julian Price. The Missionary Message of the Bible. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941.
Martin-Achard, Robert. Israél et les nations. La perspective missionnaire de lAncien Testament. Neuchatel & Paris: Delachaux & Niestlé, 1959. (Cahiers Théologiques, 42.) Paperback.Missionary perspective of the Old Testament; includes bibliography.An English translation, Israel and the Nations, is in process of preparation.
Mathews, James K. To the End of the Earth. A Study in Luke—Acts on the Life and Mission of the Church. Nashville: National Methodist Student Movement, 1959. Paperback.A Biblical study by the Methodist Bishop of the Boston Area, who was formerly a missionary in India and later an executive secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions.
May, Peter. “Towards a Biblical Theology of Mission,” in The Indian Journal of Theology (Serampore), Vol. VIII (Jan—March 1959), pp: 21-28.
Phillips, Godfrey Edward. The Old Testament in the World Church; With Special Reference to the Younger Churches. London: Lutterworth Press, 1942.The importance of the Old Testament for missionaries and national leaders.
Raguin, Yves. Théologie missionnaire de l’ Ancien Testament. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1947. Paperback.A study of Old Testament mission theology by a Catholic scholar.
Rétif, André, S.J. Foi au Christ et Mission; d’aprés les Actes des Apétres. Paris: Le Cerf, 1953.A study of the doctrinal basis for mission in the Acts of the Apostles, in which the author deals with the apostolic kerygma and the Lord’s place in it, and the part played by signs and missionary work as God’s judgment.
Rowley, Harold Henry. The Missionary Message of the Old Testament. London: Carey Press, [1945].A valuable contribution, now out of print, by a leading Old Testament scholar who formerly served as a missionary overseas.
Schick, Erich. Mission und Missionsverantwortung im Licht der Bibel. Basel: Basler Missionsbuchhandlung, 1955. (Die Sammlung der Gemeinde, Heft 10). Paperback.Missions and the responsibility to proclaim the Gospel, in the light of the Bible.
Shillito, Edward. The Way of the Witnesses. London: The Livingstone Press; New York: Friendship Press, 1936. Paperback.A New Testament study in missionary motive.
Soper, Edmund Davison. The Biblical Background of the Christian World Mission. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, [1951]. Paperback.A good introductory study by an American Methodist scholar.
Sundkler, Bengt and Fridrichsen, Anton. Contributions a l'étude de la pensée Missionnaire dans le Nouveau Testament. Uppsala: Das Neutestamentliche Seminar zu Uppsala, 1937.Studies of missionary thought in the New Testament. The two essays in this work are “Jésus et les paiens,” and “La pensée missionnaire dans le Quatriéme Evangile.”
Warren, Max A. C. The Gospel of Victory. London: SCM Press, 1955.A study in the relevance of the Epistle to the Galatians for the Christian mission today.
Wiersinga, H. A. Zendingsperspectief in het Oude Testament. Baarn: Bosch en Keuning, 1954.The mission perspective in the Old Testament.
Wright, G. Ernest. The God Who Acts. Biblical Theology as Recital. London: SCM Press, 1952.
4. HISTORICAL STUDIES
Addison, James Thayer. The Medieval Missionary. New York: International Missionary Council, 1936.A scholarly, well-written study of mission methods, motives, and message during the medieval period. =
Benz, Ernst. “Pietist and Puritan Sources of Early Protestant World Missions (Cotton Mather and A. H. Francke),” in. Church History (Philadeiphia), Vol. XX (June 1951), pp. 28-55.
Diirr, Johannes. Sendende und werdende Kirche in der Missionstheologie Gustav Warneck’s. Basel: Basler Missionsbuchhandlung, 1947. Paperback. aA critical study of Gustav Warneck’s mission theology.
Glazik, Josef, M.S.C. Die Russisch-Orthodoxe Heidenmission seit Peter dem Grossen. Ein missionsgeschichtlicher Versuch nach russischen Quellen und Darstellungen. Minster: Aschendorfische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1954.An important historical study of the Russian Orthodox mission to the heathen since Peter the Great, with twenty-five pages of valuable bibliography.
Harnack, Adolf von. Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten. 2 vols. 4th ed. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1924. Translated into English and edited by James Moffatt, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. 2 vols. 2nd ed. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908.The standard history of missions in the early Church.
History’s Lessons for Tomorrow’s Mission: Milestones in the History of Missionary Thinking. Geneva: World’s Student Christian Federation, 1960.Essays by Latourette, Hogg, Margull, Gensichen, Neill, Rétif, Philippe Maury and others. Includes extensive annotated bibliography.
Hogg, William Richey. Ecumenical Foundations. A History of the International Missionary Council and Its Nineteenth-Century Background. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.A classic study which gives the necessary understanding of background developments in this period. Extensive footnotes and bibliography.
Holsten, Walter. Christentum und nichtchristliche Religion nach der Auffassung Luthers. Giitersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1932.Luther’s understanding of Christianity and non-Christian religion, in a study by the Professor of Missiology at the University of Mainz.. “Reformation und Mission,” in Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (Giitersloh), Vol. XLIV (1-2, 1953), pp. 1-32.A positive and sympathetic appraisal of the Reformers’ concept and contribution in missionary thinking, with a summary in English and bibliographical notes.
Kiibler, Otto. Mission und Theologie: Eine Untersuchung iiber den Missionsgedanken in der systematischen Theologie seit Schleiermacher. Leipzig: T. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1929.A valuable study, now out of print, of missionary thought in German systematic theology from Schleiermacher to 1927.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. 7 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers,A monumental work; important in establishing the history of missions as a recognized field of theological study.
Liechtenhan, Rudolf. Die urchristliche Mission: Voraussetzungen, Motive und Methoden. Ziirich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1946. (Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments.) Paperback.An historical study of the Christian mission as founded in the message and lifework of Jesus, and carried forth by the primitive Church and St. Paul.
Littell, Franklin Hamlin. The Anabaptist View of the Church: A Study on the Origins of Sectarian Protestantism. 2nd ed. Boston: Starr King Press, 1958.See Chapter 5, “The Great Commission.”. The Free Church. Boston: Starr King Press, 1957.See Chapter 7, “The Free Churches and Ecumenics.” In the chapters cited from both of these books the author relates the theology of mission in the Free Church tradition to the ecumenical movement, and attempts to develop a new interpretation of the significant place which missions play in the doctrine of the Church as understood by the Free Churches.
Myklebust, Olav Guttorm. The Study of Missions in Theological Education. 2 vols. Oslo: Hovedkommisjon Forlaget Land og Kirke, 1955-57. (Studies of the Egede Institute, 6-7.) Paperback.A definitive work on the history (1800-1950) of the study of missions as a theological subject.
Nieden, Ernst zur. Der Missionsgedanke in der systematischen Theologie seit Schleiermacher. Giitersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1928.A critical study, now out of print, of missionary thought in German systematic theology from Schleiermacher down to 1927.
Pietsch, P. Johannes, O.M.I. P. Robert Streit O.M.I. Ein Pionier der katholischen Missionswissenschaft. Schéneck/Beckenried, Schweiz: Administration der Neuen Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, 1952.A survey-study of the contribution made by Father Streit, who was a pioneer in Catholic missiology in the early twentieth century; includes a bibliography of his writings.
Richter, Martin. Der Missionsgedanke im evangelischen Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: T. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1928.A study, now out of print, of missionary thought in Protestant Germany during the century. Includes eleven pages of bibliography.
Scharer, Hans. Die Begriindung der Mission in der katholischen und evangelischen Missionswissenschaft. Zollikon—Ziirich: Evang. Verlag, 1944. (Theologische Studien, Heft 16.) Paperback.The foundation of the mission in Catholic and Protestant missiology.
Schmidt, Martin. Der junge Wesley als Heidenmissionar und Missionstheologe. Giitersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1955. Translated into English by L. A. Fletcher, The Young Wesley: Missionary and Theologian of Missions. London: Epworth Press, 1958. Paperback.
Van den Berg, Johannes. Constrained by Jesus’ Love. An Inquiry into the Motives of the Missionary Awakening in Great Britain in the Period between 1698 and 1815. Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1956. Paperback.A valuable historico-theological assessment of missionary motives, with extensive bibliographical footnotes. ~~
Warneck, Gustav. Abriss einer Geschichte der protestantischen Missionen von der Reformation bis auf die Gegenwart. Mit einem Anhang iiber die katholischen Missionen. 10. Aufl. Berlin: Verlag von Martin Warneck, 1913. Third English edition translated from the eighth German edition by George Robson, Outline of a History of Protestant Missions from the Reformation to the Present Time. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., [1906].A standard work by the German “father” of Protestant missiology [Missionswissenschaft]; especially valuable today for his appraisal of missionary thought and motivation from the Reformation through the founding of the Protestant missionary societies.
Zwemer, Samuel M. “Calvinism and the Missionary Enterprise,” in Theology Today (Princeton), Vol. VIL (July 1950), pp. 206-16.
5. CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER FAITHS
Appleton, George. Glad Encounter: Jesus Christ and the Living Faiths of Men. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1959. Paperback.Beginning with the great doctrines of the Christian faith, the author tries to interpret Jesus Christ as good news to men of other faiths.
Ashby, Philip H. The Conflict of Religions. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1955.A challenging appeal for a united witness of the major religions in meeting the problems of mankind.
The Authority of the Faith. Vol. 1 in The Tambaram-Madras Series. 7 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1939.This important symposium continued the Tambaram debate concerning “discontinuity” and “Biblical realism,” with essays by Hendrik Kraemer, Walter Marshall Horton, Karl Hartenstein, David G. Moses, H. H. Farmer, and others.
Baillie, John. The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956.. The Interpretation of Religion. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928., and Martin, Hugh (eds.). Revelation. London: Faber and Faber, 1937.A symposium, now out of print, with essays by Gustaf Aulen, Karl Barth, Sergium Bulgakoff, M. C. D’Arcy, T. S. Eliot, Walter M.Horton, and William Temple.
Bavinck, John H. The Impact of Christianity on the Non-Christian World. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1948.A scholarly study by a conservative Dutch missionary theologian.
Bennett, John C. Christianity and Communism Today. New York: Association Press, 1960. (A Haddam House Book.)A penetrating Christian analysis by the Dean of Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Bouquet, A. C. The Christian Faith and Non-Christian Religions. London: James Nisbet and Co.; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.The author has a preference for the larger view of revelation “supported by Sdderblom and William Temple, as against the opinions of Witte and Kraemer.”. Is Christianity the Final Religion? London: Macmillan and Co. 1921..T. he Christian Religion and its Competitors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1924.
Braden, Charles S. Jesus Compared. A Study of Jesus and Other Great Founders of Religions. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957.
Brunner, Emil. Die Christusbotschaft im Kampf mit den Religionen. Stuttgart u. Basel: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1931.The struggle of the Christian message with the religions.
The Christian Life and Message in Relation to Non-Christian Systems of Thought and Life. Vol. 1 of The Jerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council, March 24-April 8, 1928. 8 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1928.A symposium of essays and reports that are important for an understanding of the evolution of mission theology among Protestants in the twentieth century.
Cragg, Kenneth. The Call of the Minaret. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.. Sandals at the Mosque. Christian Presence Amid Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.Both these books, by an Anglican missionary scholar, are concerned with the Christian understanding of Islam in the modern world and the Christian response to it.
Devanandan, Paul D. The Gospel and Renascent Hinduism. London: SCM Press, 1959. (I.M.C. Research Pamphlets, No. 8.) Paperback.A study of the Hindu approach to Christianity and the Christian concern in renascent Hinduism.
Dewick, E. C. The Christian Attitude to Other Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.This English scholar reminds Christians not to exclude the possibility that God may also have truly spoken to men through other channels.. The Gospel and Other Faiths. London: The Canterbury Press, 1948.
Eckhardt, A. Roy. Christianity and the Children of Israel. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1948.A scholarly survey of the Christian relationship to the Children of Israel and a suggested theological basis for a Christian approach to the Jewish question. Extensive bibliographical references.
Eliade, Mircea and Kitagawa, Joseph M. (eds.). The History of Religions: Essays in Methodology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.Essays by Benz, Daniélou, W. C. Smith, Heiler, and others, that point out the new significance and relevance of studies in the history of religions for the theology of mission. -
Farmer, Herbert H. Revelation and Religion. Studies in the Theological Interpretation of Religious Types. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1954.
Farquhar, John N. The Crown of Hinduism. London: Oxford University. Press, 1913.The thesis of this controversial study was that Christ can create a substitute which would preserve and “crown” all that is good in Hinduism.
Forman, Charles W. A Christian's Handbook on Communism. Rev. ed. New York: Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1955. Paperback.A concise treatment with suggested reading list.
Hedenquist, Géte (ed.). The Church and the Jewish People. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1954.Essays by Christians and Jews, prepared under the auspices of the LM.C. to impress upon Christians their continuing responsibility in relation to the Jewish people of today.
Hermelink, Jan. Verstehen und Bezeugen. Der theologische Ertrag der “Phdnomenologie der Religion” von Gerardus van der Leeuw. Munchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1960. (Beitrage zur evangelischen Theologie, Band 30.) Paperback.The author’s doctoral dissertation; a study in Gerardus van der Leeuw’s concept of “The Phenomenology of Religion.”
Hocking, William Ernest. Living Religions and a World Faith. London: Allen & Unwin; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.In a fuller statement of his basic position in Re-Thinking Missions, Dr. Hocking suggests the way toward a world faith, not by means of “radical displacement,” but by “synthesis” leading to “reconception.”. The Coming World Civilization. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.A philosopher’s approach to history, in which he gives attention to the character and future role of Christianity among the religions of the world.
Hogg, A. G. The Christian Message to the Hindu. London: SCM Press, 1947.A respected and retired missionary theologian from India deals with the challenge of the Gospel in India.
Horton, Walter Marshall. Christian Theology: An Ecumenical Approach. Rev. and enlarged ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.See the Appendix: “Christianity and Other Living Faiths,” pp.293-308.
Hume, Robert Ernest. The World’s Living Religions. With Special Reference to Their Sacred Scriptures and in Comparison with Christianity. Rev. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959.An outstanding study, first published in 1924, issued now in a new edition, revised by Charles S. Braden.
Jones, E. Stanley. The Christ of the Indian Road. New York: Abingdon Press, 1925.A thoughtful presentation of the Christian mission, especially as related to the challenge in India, by the noted American Methodist missionary evangelist.. Christ at the Round Table. New York: Abingdon Press, 1928.
Jurji, Edward J. The Christian Interpretation of Religion. Christianity in Its Human and Creative Relationships with the World’s Cultures and Faiths. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.
Kraemer, Hendrik. The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World. Published for the International Missionary Council in London: Edinburgh House Press; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938.One of the most important books in the evolution of mission theology among Protestants in the twentieth century, this was written for the—meeting at Madras in 1938 and emphasized “Biblical realism” and “discontinuity.”. Religion and the Christian Faith. London: Lutterworth Press, [1956].The approach and material are new, the author’s exegetical study of the Biblical data is especially valuable, but his position is basically unchanged from that in his earlier book.World Cultures and World Religions: The Coming Dialogue. London: Lutterworth Press, 1960.
Manikam, Rajah B. (ed.). Christianity and the Asian Revolution. Madras: Diocesan Press for Christian Literature Society, Madras and Friendship Press, New York, 1954; reprinted [1955].Studies which assess the Christian mission in Asia. See especially the chapter by J. Russell Chandran, “The Christian Approach to non-Christian Religions,” pp. 185-209.
Moses, David G. Religious Truth and the Relation between Religions. Madras: The Christian Literature Society for India, 1950. (Indian Research Series, No. 5.) Paperback.A challenging study by an Indian scholar who maintains that the criterion of religious truth must be sought in the essential nature of Teligion itself, in terms of the fundamental needs which it satisfies, in the conservation, creation, and practical realization in life of values. Bibliography included.
Niles, Daniel T. The Task and the Stone of Stumbling. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. (The Lyman Beecher Lectures for 1957.)An ecumenical leader from Ceylon deals with the question “What is the nature of the existence of the Christian message in a non-Christian world?”
Ohm, Thomas, O.S.B. Die Liebe zu Gott in den nichtchristlichen Religionen. Die Tatsachen der Religionsgeschichte und die christliche Theologie. Krailling vor Miinchen: Erich Wewel Verlag, 1950.The noted Catholic missiologist in Miinster presents in this massive volume, rich in bibliographical references, a masterful study on the love of God in non-Christian religions.
Perry, Edmund. The Gospel in Dispute. The Relation of Christian Faith to Other Missionary Religions. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co., 1958.The author is an American Methodist who says that all non-Christian faiths “not only are unable to bring men to God, they actually lead men away from God and hold them captive from God.”
Phillips, Godfrey Edward. The Transmission of the Faith. London: Lutterworth Press, 1946.A study in the process of communication to non-Christians, by an English missiologist.
Price, Frank Wilson. Marx Meets Christ. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1957.A contrast of the two persons, the two ideas, the two systems, the two faiths, by one who faced Communism in China.
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. East and West in Religion. London: George Allen & Unwin Lid., 1933.The philosophy of religion treated from the comparative point of view by a non-Christian who is Vice-President of India and former Professor of Eastern Religions at Oxford University.. Eastern Religions and Western Thought. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1940.. Recovery of Faith, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955.The author seeks a transcendent unity of religions.
Rosenkranz, Gerhard. Evangelische Religionskunde. Einfiihrung in eine theologische Schau der Religionen. Tiibingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1951.An effort toward understanding the living religions in light of the Christian truth; includes seven pages of bibliography.
Ross, Floyd H. Addressed to Christians: Isolationism vs. World Community. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.A challenging approach to the problem of world community and the question of the Christian relation to the other religions of the world, by one who questions the adequacy of any one religious symbol for all peoples of the world.
Schuon, Frithjof. The Transcendent Unity of Religions. London: Faber and Faber; New York: Pantheon Books [1953].A Study of Oriental and Occidental religions in which the author seeks to prove that there is a transcendent unity underlying all the great religions.
Schweitzer, Albert. Christianity and the Religions of the World. Translated by Johanna Powers, with a Foreword by Nathaniel Micklem. New York: Henry Holt, 1939; The Macmillan Co., 1951. Original title: Das Christentum und die Weltreligionen. 2nd ed. Miinchen: C. H. Beck, 1925.
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. “Christianity’s Third Great Challenge,” in Christian Century, Vol. LXXVII (April 27, 1960), pp. 505-08. See “Reader’s Response to the W. C. Smith Thesis,” by the Anglican Bishop of Nagpur (J. W. Sadiq), in Christian Century, August 24, 1960, p. 974.
Steere, Douglas V. “Mutual Irradiation,” in Religion in Life (Nashville), Vol. XXVIII (Summer 1959), pp. 395-405.An American Quaker view.
Toynbee, Arnold. Christianity Among the Religions of the World. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957.The author suggests that Christians should recognize that, in some measure, all the living higher religions are also revelations of what is true and right, and that Christianity should be purged of the exclusive-mindedness and intolerance that follows from a belief in Christianity’s uniqueness.
Vicedom, Georg F. Die Weltreligionen im Angriff auf die Christenheit. 2nd ed. Miinchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1957. Paperback.An analysis of the present world situation, of the threat to Christianity from the revival of other religions, and a call for a spiritual revival within Christianity to meet the challenge.. Die Mission der Weltreligionen. Miinchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1959, Paperback.
Wach, Joachim. The Comparative Study of Religions. Edited with an Intro-by Joseph M. Kitagawa. New York: Columbia University Press, 5 Includes twenty-six pages of bibliography.Types of Religious Experience: Christian and Non-Christian. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
West, Charles C. Communism and the Theologians: Study of an Encounter. London: SCM Press; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1958.A solid study of the Christian encounter with Communism as seen in the theology of Tillich, Niebuhr, Barth, and others.
6. THEORY OF THE MISSION
Allen, Geoffrey. The Theology of Missions. London: SCM Press, 1943. Paperback.A concise introductory survey of missionary motive, outreach, and method by an Anglican with missionary experience in China.
Allen, Roland. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours. London: Robert Scott, 1912.. Essential Missionary Principles. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1913.. The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes which Hinder It. London: World Dominion Press, [1927].
Andersen, Wilhelm. Auf dem Weg zu einer Theologie der Mission. Giitersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1957. Translated into English by Bishop Stephen Neill, Towards a Theology of Mission: A Study of the Encounter between the Missionary Enterprise and the Church and Its Theology. London: SCM 1955. (I.M.C. Research Pamphlets, No. 2.) Paperback.The most valuable single item one could read for a succinct survey of the developments from Edinburgh 1910 through Willingen 1952, with indications of further possible lines of development in the discussion concerning the missionary obligation of the Church.
Baker, Archibald G. Christian Missions and a New World a Willett, Clark & Co., 1934.—A culture-centered approach with the cross-fertilization of cultures as the objective of the missionary enterprise.
Bavinck, John H. Inleiding in de Zendingswetenschap. Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1954, English translation by David H. Freeman, An Introduction to the Science of Missions. Philadelphia: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1960. ZA basic introduction by a conservative Dutch scholar.
Beaver, R. Pierce. The Christian World Mission: A Reconsideration. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1957. (The William Carey Lectures of 1957 at Serampore College, West Bengal, India.) Paperback.The writer summarizes the situation today, challenges traditional concepts of Church and mission, and suggests further lines of development for the future.
Beaver, R. Pierce. “North American Thoughts on the Fundamental Principles of Missions,” in Church History (Philadelphia), Vol. XXI (Dec. 1952), pp- 345-64.
Catarzi, Dan, S.X. Lineamenti di Dommatica Missionaria. Teologia delle Missioni Estere. 2 vols. Parma: Istituto Saveriano Missioni Estere, 1958.A careful Catholic exposition of mission theology.
Champagne, Joseph Etienne, O.M.I. Manuel d’Action Missionnaire. Ottawa: PUniversité d’Ottawa, 1947. Translated into English by Roy L. Laberge, Manual of Missionary Action. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, [1948].A basic general manual in Catholic missiology.
Charles, Pierre, S.J. Les Dossiers de Missionnaire. Manuel de Missiologie. 2nd ed. Louvain: Editions de PAucam, 1938.The late Pére Charles was a leading Catholic missiologist for whom mission was the primary function of the Church, by the Church, to plant the Church; and the specific object of missionary activity was to make the Church grow to the ends of the earth.. Missiologie. Etudes, Rapports, Conférences. I. Louvain: Editions de PAucam, 1939.. Etudes Missiologiques. [Paris]: Desclée De Brouwer, 1956.
The Christian Mission Today. Edited by the Joint Section of Education and Cultivation of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church. New York: Abingdon Press, 1960. Paperback.Essays by twenty-one contemporary leaders who consider: (1) motives for the Christian mission; (2) the Church in America; (3)Methodism and the mission overseas; (4) the mission faces a world of change; (5) the task of minister and people.
The Church’s Witness to God's Design. Vol. Il in Man’s Disorder and God’s Design: The Amsterdam Assembly Series. London: SCM Press; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.An ecumenical study prepared under the auspices of the World Council of Churches in preparation for the Amsterdam Assembly, with important essays and the official findings of the preparatory commission.
Cook, Harold R. An Introduction to the Study of Christian Missions. Chicago: Moody Press, 1954.A thoughtful presentation from the conservative evangelical viewpoint.
Daniélou, Jean, S.J. The Salvation of the Nations. Translated from the French by Angeline Bouchard. London: Sheed & Ward, 1949. Original title: Le mystére du salut des nations. Paris: Editions du Seuil, [1946]. German edition: Vom Heil der Vélker. Frankfort/M: Verlag Josef Knecht Carolusdruckerei, 1952.A popular little book by a noted Catholic missiologist.
DeWolf, L. Harold. The Case for Theology in Liberal Perspective. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1959.See Chapter XI, “The Mission,” pp. 182-89.
Dillistone, F. W. Christianity and Communication. London: Collins; NewYork: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956.A study of the principles and practices of effective communication of the Christian Gospel.. Revelation and Evangelism. London: Lutterworth Press, 1948.The theology of revelation and its implications for the evangelistic activity of the Church.
Ferré, Nels F. S. The Christian Faith: An Inquiry into Its Adequacy asMan's Ultimate Religion. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942.
Fison, J. E. The Blessing of the Holy Spirit. London: Longmans, Green andCo., 1950.This study, by an Anglican scholar, points to the essential place and significance of the Holy Spirit for the Christian mission.. The Christian Hope: The Presence and the Parousia. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1954.
Forman, Charles W. A Faith for the Nations. Philadelphia: WestminsterPress, 1957. (Layman’s Theological Library.)A helpful introductory study for laymen and ministers, by the Professor of Missions at Yale Divinity School.
Freytag, Walter. “Vom Sinn der Weltmission,” in Evangelische Missions-Zeitschrift (Stuttgart), Vol. VII (1950), pp. 1-8; also in Evangelisches Missions-Magazin (Basel), Vol. XCIV (1950), pp. 67-75; English tr. “The Meaning and Purpose of the Christian Mission,” International Review of Missions (London), Vol. XXXIX (1950), pp. 153-61; Swedish tr. ‘“Varldsmissionens innebord,” Svensk Missionstidskrift (Uppsala), Vol. XXXVIII (1950), pp. 11-22; Danish tr. in Nordisk Missions Tidsskrift (Copenhagen), Vol. LXI (1950), pp. 3-15.
Goodall, Norman (ed.). Missions Under the Cross. Addresses Delivered at the Enlarged Meeting of the Committee of the I.M.C. at Willingen, Germany, in 1952; with Statements issued by the Meeting. London: Published for the I.M.C. by Edinburgh House Press and distributed in the U.S.A. by Friendship Press, New York, 1953.Contains important essays on mission theory by a cross section of ecumenical mission leaders.
Hartenstein, Karl. Die Mission als theologisches Problem. Beitraége zum grundsdtzlichen Verstdndnis der Mission. Berlin: Furche-Verlag, 1933.Dr. Hartenstein was Missions-Director in Basel and a leading spokesman for the Continental viewpoint on the theology of missions.
Hartt, Julian N. Toward a Theology of New York: Abingdon Press, 1955.An interpretation of the Church’s mission in terms of the basic theological beliefs upon which every evangelistic effort must build.
Hebert, Gabriel. Fundamentalism and the Church. London: SCM Press; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957.A critical study of the strengths and weaknesses of Fundamentalist theology and its implications for the missionary movement.
Henry, A. M., O.P. Esquisse d’une théologie de la mission, Paris: Ed. du Cerf, 1959.Theological speculation on the missionary activity of the Church, its aim, its means, and its progressive phases.
Hermelink, Jan and Margull, Hans Jochen (eds.). Basileia: Walter Freytag zum 60. Geburtstag. Stuttgart: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1959.Essays in German and English on missions, the Church, and ecumenics from fifty-two scholars in honor of the late Professor Walter Freytag.
Hoekendijk, Johannes C. Kerk en Volk in de Duitse Zendingswetenschap. [Amsterdam: Drukkerij Kampert en Helm, 1948]. Paperback.A critical study of German mission theory, centering upon the two concepts of Church and nation [Volk].“Die Kirche im Missionsdenken,” in Evangelische Missions-Zeitschrift (Stuttgart), Vol. IX (1952), pp. 1-13; English tr. “The Church in Missionary Thinking,” in International Review of Missions (London), Vol. XLI (1952), pp. 324-36; French tr. “L’Eglise dans la Pensée Missionnaire,” in Le Monde non chrétien (Paris), 1951, pp. 415—33; Danish tr. “Kirken i missionstaenkningen,” in Nordisk Missions Tidsskrift (Copenhagen), Vol. (1952), pp. 3-19.This critical essay prior to the Willingen Meeting of the I.M.C., by a noted Dutch missionary theologian, stimulated deeper reflection upon the relation of the Church to mission.
Hogg, William Richey. One World, One Mission. New York: Friendship Press, 1960. Paperback.This interdenominational study book on the theme “Into all the world together” presents a substantial introduction to the foundations, the history and problems of the Christian mission; includes bibliography.
Holsten, Walter. Das Kerygma und der Mensch. Einfiihrung in die Religionsund Missionswissenschaft. Miinchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1953. Paperback.A summary study of missionary thinking to the present time, with exhaustive bibliographical references, by the Professor of Missiology at the University of Mainz.
James, Athanasius Coucouzes. “The Orthodox Concept of Mission and Missions,” (pp. 76-80) in Basileia, edited by Jan Hermelink and Hans Jochen Marguil. Stuttgart: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1959.A valuable statement by the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America,
Jurji, Edward J. (ed.). The Ecumenical Era in Church and Society. A Symposium in Honor of John A. Mackay. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.Essays by Kraemer, Goodall, Devanandan, Dillistone, Niles, and others, that consider crucial issues relevant to the theology of mission.
Kantonen, T. A. The Theology of Evangelism. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1954.A conservative Lutheran scholar seeks to clarify the central truths of the Gospel in their relation to the actual work of evangelism.
Kraemer, Hendrik. The Communication of the Christian Faith. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956.A study of communication in Biblical, historical, and contemporary perspective; with a critical consideration of possible answers to the breakdown of communicating the Christian faith.. A Theology of the Laity. London: Lutterworth Press; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1958.Fundamental rethinking of the place and responsibility of the laity in the Church and in the world.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Toward a World Christian Fellowship. New York: Association Press, [1938]. (Hazen Books on Religion.)A concise introductory study dealing with the questions and criticisms put to the missionary enterprise most frequently.
Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry, Commission of Appraisal; William Ernest Hocking, Chairman. Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen’s Inquiry After One Hundred Years. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932.This report stimulated recognition of the missionary problem as a theological problem. It provoked basic rethinking of the issues on all sides, but was itself widely criticized for its tone of optimism and relativism.
Levai, Blaise (ed.). Revolution in Missions. 2nd ed. Calcutta: YMCA Publishing House, 1958.An important symposium by Indians and Westerners who examine the Christian mission today.
Lindsell, Harold. A Christian Philosophy of Missions. Wheaton, Illinois: Van Kampen Press, 1949.A systematic exposition from the Biblically conservative American peint of view.. Missionary Principles and Practice. Westwood, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1955.
Loffeld, Edouard. Le probléme cardinal de la missiologie et des missions catholiques. Rhenan, Holland: Editions Spiritus, 1956. _The Professor of Missions at the Roman Catholic University of Nijmegen deals with the question “What is the purpose of missions?”as the cardinal question of missiology, and gives attention to the relation of the Church to mission.
de Lubac, Henri. Le fondement théologique des missions. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1946. Paperback.A Catholic study of the theological foundation for missions.
La lumiére des nations: les problémes actuels de l'Eglise et de la mission en Asie et en Afrique. Neuchatel: Editions Delachaux & = 1944. (Collection “l’Actualité Protestante.”)A symposium on mission theory and strategy. See Fae the essay by Théo Preiss, “L’Eglise et la mission,” pp. 9-34.
McGavaran, Donald Anderson. The Bridges of God: A Study in the Strategy. of Missions. London: World Dominion Press; New York: Friendship Press, 1955.A contrast Senn the “People Movement” and the “Mission Station Approach.’. How Churches Grow: The New Frontiers of Mission. London: World Dominion Press, and distributed in the U.S.A. by Friendship Press, New York, 1959.The author favors winning the winnable now, pouring all available mission resources into existing responsive populations.
Mackay, John A. “Theology, Christ, and the Missionary Obligation,” in Theology Today (Princeton), Vol. VII (January 1951), pp. 429-36.A Christ-centered approach to the theology of mission by a distinguished Presbyterian missionary theologian.
Margull, Hans Jochen. Theologie der missionarischen Verkiindigung: Evangelisation als oekumenisches Problem. Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk, 1959.The theology of mission as an ecumenical problem; includes thirtyfour pages of bibliography. An English translation is in preparation.
Michalson, Carl. The Hinge of History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959.See Chapter X, “The Mission of the Church,” pp. 235-46.
Miller, Donald G. The Nature and Mission of the Church. Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, 1957. Paperback.
da Mondreganes, Pio Maria, O.F.M. Cap. Manuale di Missionologia. Rome: Marietti, 1950.A standard Catholic work on mission theory, with extensive bibliographical references.
Morgan, E. R. The Mission of the Church. London: The Centenary Press, 1946.Written by an Anglican bishop who says that the Church’s mission is to be the Body of Christ, to proclaim and recall the Presence.(ed.). Essays Catholic and Missionary. London: SPCK, 1928.‘An Anglican symposium on the theory and practice of missions., and Lloyd, Roger (eds.). The Mission of the Anglican Communion. London: SPCK and SPG, 1948.Predominantly “high church.”
Mulders, Alphons. Inleiding tot de Missiewetenschap. Bussum: Uitgeverij Paul Brand N.V., 1950.A basic Roman Catholic introduction to missiology, by the Director of the Missiological Institute at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, and editor of Het Missiewerk.
Murphy, Edward L., S.J. Teach Ye All Nations. The Principles of Catholic Missionary Work. New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., [1958].A popular introduction to Catholic mission theory.
Neill, Stephen. The Unfinished Task. London: Edinburgh House Press; Lutterworth Press, 1957.. Creative Tension. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1959. (The Duff Lectures, 1958.)Both of these books by an Anglican bishop with missionary and ecumenical experience deal with the state of the Church and theology in mission at mid-twentieth century.
Newbigin, Lesslie. The Household of God. New York: Friendship Press, 1954.A dynamic study of the Christian community, its nature and its mission.. One Body, One Gospel, One World: The Christian Mission Today. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1958. Paperback. German ed.; Die eine Kirche, das eine Evangelium, die eine Welt: die christliche Mission heute. Stuttgart: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1959. Paperback.A provocative presentation of problems facing the mission today.
Niles, Daniel T. That They May Have Life. New York: Published in Association with the SVM by Harper & Brothers, 1951.The author seeks to trace the connection between God’s work in creation and redemption and God’s call to all men, through the Church, to share in His work.
Ohm, Thomas, O.S.B. Machet alle Vélker zu Jiinger; eine katholische Missionstheorie. Freiburg: Wewel, [to be published soon].This new extensive theory of missions, by the noted Catholic missiologist in Miinster, is certain to be a major contribution of benefit to all.
Orchard, Ronald K. Out of Every Nation. A discussion of the internationalization of missions. London: SCM Press, 1959. (I.M.C. Research Pamphlets, No. 7.)(ed.). The Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council; December 28, 1957, to January 8, 1958, in Accra, Ghana. Selected Papers with an Essay on the Role of the 1.M.C. London: Published for the I.M.C. by Edinburgh House Press and distributed in n the U.S.A. by Friendship Press, New “York, 1958.
Paton, David M. Christian Missions and the Judgment of God. London: SCM Press, 1953.An Anglican missionary writes concerning what is to be learned about the Church’s mission and for her missionary strategy from “the missionary debacle in China.”
Paton, William. A Faith for the World. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1929.Written by a former secretary of the I.M.C. and editor of the International Review of Missions, this study still merits careful reading.(ed.). The Missionary Motive. London: SCM Press, 1913.
Paventi, Saverio. La Chiesa Missionaria. 2 vols. Rome: Unione Missionaria del Clero in Italia, [1949—SO].See Volume I: Manuale de Missionsologia Dottrinale; a standard Catholic work, with bibliographical footnotes. +
Perbal, Albert, O.M.I. Premiéres cots de théologie missionnaire. Paris: Dillen, 1937.An important Catholic of the fundamentals in mission theology.
Phillips, Godfrey Edward. The Gospel in the World: A Restatement of Missionary Principles. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co., 1939; abridgment, 1947.A stocktaking of the principles governing the Christian mission.
Pickhard, Elsie C. and Shotwell, Louisa R. (eds.). Every Tribe and Tongue. New York: Friendship Press, 1960. Paperback.Records the search of six hundred delegates from thirty-six denominations for the meaning of the mission in today’s world; includes essays by E. L. Smith, Niles, Espy, Lazareth, Perry, and others.
Price, Frank Wilson. As the Lightning Flashes. (The Sprunt Lectures for 1948.) Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1948.A reinterpretation of the missionary purpose for a new era.
Ranson, Charles W. That the World May Know. New York: Friendship Press, 1953.Written by an ecumenical leader at the request of the National Council of Churches in the U.S.A. to interpret the life and task of the Church in the world.(ed.). Renewal and Advance: Christian Witness in a Revolutionary World. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1948.Addresses and statements from the meeting of the I.M.C. at Whitby, Ontario, Canada, July, 1947.
Rétif, André, S.J. Introduction a la doctrine pontificale des missions. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1953.A study of the pontifical doctrine of missions as seen in the official statements of the supreme authorities, i.e., the Popes, the Papal Congregations, and in the statements of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide.
Richter, Julius. Evangelische Missionskunde. 2 vols. Vol. I: Evangelische Missionsgeschichte. Vol. 11: Evangelische Missionslehre und A pologetik. Leipzig: A. Deichertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1927.A standard German work on the history and theory of Protestant missions.
Roux, Hébert. Eglise et mission. Paris: Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris, 1956. (Collection Présence de la Mission.) Paperback.A study in the relation between Church and mission.
Rowlingson, Donald T. ““No Other Name’—In What Sense?” in Christian Century, Vol. LXXVII (Sept. 14, 1960), pp. 1055-57.
Schlunk, Martin (ed.). Botschafter an Christi Statt: von Wesen und Werk deutscher Missionsarbeit. Giitersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1932.An important symposium by eminent German and Swiss scholars, dealing with various aspects of mission theory.
Schmidlin, Joseph. Katholische Missionslehre im Grundriss. Miinster: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1919; 2nd ed. 1923. Translated into English by Matthias Braun, Catholic Mission Theory. Techny, Illinois: Mission Press, S.V.D., 1931.The first systematic approach to the theology of missions among Roman Catholics. Extensive bibliography, pp. 462-79.. Einfiihrung in die Missionswissenschaft. 2nd ed. Miinster: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.An introduction to the science of missions.
Seumois, Andr. V., O.M.I. Vers une définition de Missionnaire. Schoneck/Beckenried, Suisse: Administration de la Nouvelle Revue de Science Missionnaire, 1948. (Cahiers de la Nouvelle Revue de Science Missionnaire, Nr. 5.) Translated into German by Joseph Peters, Auf dem Wege zu einer Definition der Missionstatigkeit. Gladbach: B. Kiihlen Kunst und Verlagsanstalt, 1948.A succinct survey of developments toward a definition of the Christian mission among Roman Catholics from 1910 to the present.. Introduction a la Missiologie. Schéneck/Beckenried: Suisse: Administration de la Nouvelle Revue de Science Missionnaire, 1952.The author summarizes past developments and points toward new advances in this introduction, the most substantial available, to Catholic mission theory. Includes extensive bibliographical footnotes.
Soper, Edmund Davison. The Philosophy of the Christian World Mission. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1943.This writer’s position, midway between Hocking and Kraemer, is still prebably the most representative view of American thought on the subject.
Speer, Robert E. Missionary Principles and Practice. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1902.Dr. Speer was a leading spokesman during the first half of the century.. Christianity and the Nations. (The Duff Lectures for 1910.) New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1910.Considerable attention is devoted to the aim and motive of missions.. The Finality of Jesus Christ. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1933.
Stewart, James S. Thine Is the Kingdom: The Church’s Mission in Our Time. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1957].Lectures on the missionary aim and motive by a noted Scottish theologian.
Thomson, James Sutherland. The Divine Mission. (The R. P. MacKay Memorial Lectures for 1956-57.) Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, 1957. Paperback.The author seeks to restate the missionary character of the Christian faith in terms of the Christian doctrine of God, stressing the theological basis for missions as over against the humanistic and sociological.
Vicedom, Georg F. Missio Dei: Einfiihrung in eine Theologie der Mission. Miinchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1958. Paperback.A valuable new approach to the theology of mission from the theocentric point of view.
Visser’t Hooft, W. A. The Pressure of Our Common Calling. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1959.An approach to the theology of the ecumenical movement, by the © General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.
Walker, Alan. The Whole Gospel for the Whole World. With an Introduction by E. G. Homrighausen. New York: Abingdon Press, 1957.Written by an Australian Methodist with ecumenical perspective, this book challenges contemporary concepts of evangelism.
Warneck, Gustav. Evangelische Missionslehre: Ein missionstheoretischer Versuch. 2 vols. Gotha: F. A. Perthes, 1897.Professor Warneck was the great German missiologist; this was his famous work which, for the first time, gave a systematic exposition of Protestant mission theory.
Warren, Max A. C. The Christian Mission. London: SCM Press, 1951.Canon Warren is the General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, London, and editor of the well-known CMS News-Letter.. The Christian Imperative. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1955.. Caesar the Beloved Enemy. London: SCM Press, 1955.. The Truth of Vision. A study in the nature of the Christian Hope. London: The Canterbury Press, 1948.. Partnership: The Study of an Idea. London: SCM Press, 1956.
Webber, George W. God's Colony in Man’s World. New York: Abingdon Press, 1960.The life and mission of the Church in the inner city, as experienced in the East Harlem Protestant Parish, New York.
West, Charles C. and Paton, David M. (eds.). The Missionary Church in East and West. London: SCM Press, 1959. (Studies in Ministry and Worship, No. 13.) Paperback.Studies that aim to erase the boundary line which divides “mission”from “ecclesiology,” and ask the basic question, “What does it mean to believe that the Church itself is a missionary body?”
White, Hugh Vernon. A Theology for Christian Missions. Chicago: Willett, Clark and Co., 1937.The author suggests the service of man as the regulative aim of Christian missions.
World Council of Churches, Division of Studies. “A Theological Reflection on the Work of Evangelism,” in The Bulletin (Geneva: World Council of Churches, Division of Studies), Vol. III (November 1959), pp. 1-46.A document on the theology of evangelism drawn up by the World Council of Churches, Department of Evangelism; Canon Theodore O.Wedel, Chairman.
Zwemer, Samuel M. “Into All the World”: The Great Commission, a Vindication and an Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1943.Dr. Zwemer was Professor of the History of Religion and Christian Missions at Princeton Theological Seminary, an authority on Islam, founder of The Muslim World journal, and was representative of a conservative, scholarly approach to the theology of mission.. Thinking Missions with Christ. Some Basic Aspects of WorldEvangelism; Our Message, Our Motive, and Our Goal. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1934.