Some of Our Favorite Books

Baptist History and Heritage Homiletics
Church Architecture Liturgy
Congregational Health Liturgical Theology
Ethnography Semiotics
 

Baptist History and Heritage

Lumpkin, William. Baptist Confessions of Faith. Revised Edition. Valley Forge:
Judson Press,1969.

McBeth, H. Leon. The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness.
Nashville: Broadman Press, 1987.

Shurden, Walter B. The Baptist Identity: Four Fragile Freedoms. Macon:
Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc. 1993.

Church Architecture

Krautheimer, Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture.Revised
by Richard Krautheimer and Slobodan Curcic. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1986.

Sovik, Edward A. Architecture for Worship. Minneapolis: Augsburg
Publishing House, 1973.

Congregational Studies

Barna, George. User Friendly Churches: What Christians Need to Know
about the Churches People Love to Go to. Ventura, CA:Regal Books,
1991.

Dale, Robert D. To Dream Again: How to Help Your Church Come Alive.
Nashville: Broadman Press, 1981.

Fortune, Marie M. Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor and the Women
He Sexually Abused, and the Congregation He Nearly Destroyed. San
Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Perry, Lloyd M. and Norman Shawchuck. Revitalizing the 20th Century
Church. Chicago: Moody Press, 1982.

Richardson, Ronald W. Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory,
Leadership, and Congregational Life. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996.

Saarinen, Martin F. The Life Cycle of a Congregation. Washington DC:
The Alban Institute, 1986.

Ethnography

Coffey, Amanda and Paul Atkinson. Making Sense of Qualitative Data:
Complimentary Research Strategies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, Inc. 1996.

Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I Fretz and Linda L. Shaw. Writing Ethnogrpahic
Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Ives, Edward D. "The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual For Fieldworkers in
Folklore and Oral History. 2nd. ed. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee
Press, 1995

LeCompte, Margaret D. and Judith Preissle. Ethnography and Qualitative
Design in Educational Research. 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press,
1984, 1993.

Wolcott, Harry F. Transforming Qualitative Data: Description, Analysis,
and Interpretation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1994.

Homiletics

Broadus, John A. A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons.
New York: A.C. Armstrong, 1888.

Buttrick, David. Homiletic: Moves and Structures. Philadelphia:Fortress
Press, 1987.

Craddock, Fred. As One Without Authority: Essays on Inductive Preaching.
Enid, OK: Philips University Press, 1971.

Long, Thomas G. The Witness of Preaching. Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox Press, 1989.

Taylor, Barbara Brown. The Preaching Life. Boston: Cowley Publications,
1993.

Tisdale, Leonora Tubbs. Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.

Troeger, Thomas H. The Parable of Ten Preachers. Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1992.

Van Seters, Arthur, ed. Preaching as a Social Act: Theology & Practice.
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988.

Wilson, Paul Scott. The Practice of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press,
1995.

Liturgical Theology

Fagerberg, David W. What is Liturgical Theology: A Study in Methodology.
Collegeville, MN: Pueblo Press, 1992.

Hoffman, Lawrence A. The Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only.
Washington, DC: The Pastoral Press, 1988.

Lathrop, Gordon W. Holy Things:A Liturgical Theology. Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1993.

Power, David N. The Eucharistic Mystery: Revitalizing the Tradition.
New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992.

Saliers, Don E. Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine.
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Liturgy

Dix, Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. London: A & C Black, 1945.

Foley, Edward. From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the
Eucharist. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1991.

Jones, Cheslyn, et. al. The Study of Liturgy. Revised ed. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992.

White, James F. A Brief History of Christian Worship. Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1993.

Semiotics

Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966.

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