Top 5 Books on: Ecclesiology
By Jonathan Dodson | November 13th, 2008 | Category: Missional Church | 11 commentsInspired by Steve McCoy’s series, I’d like to know what your top 5 books on ecclesiology are. I know this is a broad topic, but just feel free to choose the 5 most influential books on the church that you have read.
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No particular order…
1. Confessions of a Reformission Rev (Mark Driscoll)
2. The Prevailing Church (Randy Pope)
3. Sharpening the Focus of the Church (Gene Getz)
4. Total Church (Steve Timmis & Tim Chester)
5. Outgrowing the Ingrown Church (C. John Miller)
1. Polity, (ed. by Mark Dever)
2. Total Church (Steve Timmis and Tim Chester)
3. Biblical Foundations for Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology (John Hammett)
4. A Display of God’s Glory (Mark Dever)
5. The Reformation of the Church (Ed. by Iain Murray)
Two books I’m working on that may in the future bump other books off the list: Manual of Church Order by J.L. Dagg and An Introduction to Ecclesiology by Veli-Matti Karkkainen
1. The first epistle of Peter (entire)
2. Organic church (Neil Cole)
3. Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity (Christopher J. Cocksworth)
no I can’t think of any others
Listed from most theological to most practical.
The Church by Clowney
All God’s People by David Smith
Total Church by Chester
Church Planter Manual by Keller – yeah, awesome
Simple Church by Rainer
No particular order
1. Michael Frost, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
2. Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
3. Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
4. Stanley Grenz, Theology for the Community of God
5. Barry Harvey, Can These Bones Live?: A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory
(on the theological nature of the church)
1. The Church, Edmund Clowney
2. Introduction to Ecclesiology, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
(practical)
3. As the Father Sent Me, So I am Sending You: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology, Michael Goheen’s doctoral dissertation
4. The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch
5. Transforming Mission, David J. Bosch (missiology book, but with profound insight on the nature of the church as a missional entity)
I will recommend one book that surveys the various views on the formation of Pauline Churches:
What Are They Saying about the Formaion of Pauline Churches. This will give you a brief introduction into all of the books that were written on the models that Paul may have used to help form his churches. Brief book, only 100 pages or so, but chocked full of sources.
Another good one: Paul’s Idea of Community by Robert Banks.
The Church – Ed Clowney
Total Church – Timmis and Chester
God’s New Community – Graham Beynon
The Church in the Bible and the World – DA Carson (ed.)
Redeemer Church Planting Manual – Keller and Thompson
Total Church – Timmis and Chester
The Forgotten Ways – Alan Hirsch
Anything by Lesslie Newbigin
Collected works of Broughton Knox – Vol 2: Church and Ministry
Redeemer Church Planting Manual – Tim Keller
The Challenge of Churchless Christianity – Timothy C. Tennent (article)
Introduction to Ecclesiology, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
The Essence of the Church/Spirit-Led Church – Craig Van Gelder
Paul’s Idea of Community – Robert Banks
Total Church – Chester & Timmis