Some of Our Favorite Books
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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