Urban Ministry Bibliography

Bryan Stone

 

 

Aberly, Doug (Ed.)

 

1993

Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment. New Society.

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

Campolo, Tony

 

2000

Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving Our Cities. John Knox Press.

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.

Eieseland, Nancy L.

 

2000

A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb. Rutgers University Press.

Ellison, Craig

 

1983

Urban Mission: Essays on the Building of a Comprehensive Model for Evangelical Urban Ministry. University Press of America (Reprint).

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.

Ellul, Jacque

 

1997

The Meaning of the City. Attic Press (Reprint).

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.

Gorringe, T. J.

 

2002

A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Grange, Joseph

 

1999

The City: An Urban Cosmology. State University of New York Press.

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.

Guinther, John

 

1997

Direction of Cities. Penguin.

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.

Harris, James Henry

 

2002

The Courage to Lead: Leadership in the African American Urban Church. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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.

Jacobs, Jane

 

1961

The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House

 

1969

The Economy of Cities. New York: Random House.

Jacobsen, Dennis A.

 

2001

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Jacobsen, Eric O.

 

2003

Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith. Brazos.

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.

Lee, Robert, Ed.

 

1962

Cities and Churches: Readings on the Urban Church. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

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.

Livezey, Lowell W. 

 

2000

Faith in the City: Public Religion and Urban Transformation. New York: New York University Press.

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.

Nacpil, Emerito P.

 

1999

Jesus’ Strategy for Social Transformation. Nashville: Abingdon.

Northcott, Michael (Ed.) 

 

1997

Urban Theology: A Reader. Cassell.

Nouwen, Henri, Douglas A. Morrison, and Donald P. McNeil

 

1983

Compassion: A Reflection on Christian Life. Image Books (Reprint).

Nunes, John and Harold Dean Trulear

 

1999

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

O’Connor, Elizabeth 

 

1975

Journey Inward, Journey Outward. Harper Collins.

Orsi, Robert A. (Ed.) 

 

1999

Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape. Indiana University Press.

Pannell, William 

 

1993

The Coming Race Wars: A Cry for Reconciliation. Zondervan.

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.

 

1981

With Justice for All. Gospel Light Publications.

Queen II, Edward L. (Ed.) 

 

2000

Serving Those in Need: A Handbook for Managing Faith-Based Human Services Organizations. Jossey Bass.

Reed, Gregory I. 

 

1994

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

Recinos, Harold J.

 

1997

Who Comes in the Name of the Lord? Jesus at the Margins. Nashville: Abingdon.

 

1989

Hear the Cry: A Latino Pastor Challenges the Church. Westminster/John Knox.

 

1992

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

Roehlkepartain, Eugene C.

 

 

Youth Ministry in City Churches.

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,

Rubin, Herbert and Irene Rubin

 

 

Community Organizing and Development.

Sample, Tex

 

1993

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

 

 

Blue Collar Ministry.

Saunders, Stanley P. and Charles L. Campbell

 

2000

The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

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.

Winter, Gibson

 

 

The Suburban Captivity of the Church.

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

 

1998

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

Ziegenhals, Walter E.

 

1981

Urban Churches in Transition. Pilgrim Press.