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Scripture Index

Bibliography

 

Acolatse, Esther E., Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the West (Grand Rapids: 2018).

 

Anatolios, Khaled, Retrieving Nicea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011).

 

Balmer, Randall, Race and the Rise of the Religious Right (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021).

 

Barna Group, The State of Discipleship (The Navigators, 2015).

 

Beck, Richard, Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2016).

 

Brauch, Manfred T., Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009).

 

Brooks, David, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (New York: Random House, 2011).

 

Brubaker, Pamela K., Globalization at What Price? Economic Change and Daily Life (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2001).

 

Brueggemann, Walter, Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007).

 

Brueggemann, Walter and John Brueggemann, Rebuilding the Foundations: Social Relationships in Ancient Scripture and Contemporary Culture (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017).

 

Burgess, Kevin “KB”, Dangerous Jesus: Why the only thing more risky than getting Jesus right is getting Jesus wrong (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Momentum, 2023).

 

Cacioppo, John T. and William Patrick, loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008).

 

Chan, Simon, Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Academic, 2014).

 

Charles, Mark and Soong-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2019).

 

Crouch, Andy, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place (Grand Rapids; Baker Books, 2017).

 

Curtice, Kaitlin B., Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2020).

 

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).

 

De La Torre, Miguel A., Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021).

 

______, Resisting Apartheid America: Living the Badass Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023).

 

Detweiler, Craig, Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age (Grand

Rapids: Brazos Press, 2018).

 

Dickson, John, Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective, 2021).

 

Edgar, William, Created & Creating: A Biblical Theology of Culture (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017).

 

Ellis, Bruce and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, eds., Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008)..

 

Giddens, Anthony, The Consequence of Modernity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990).

 

Gladd, Benjamin L. and Matthew S. Harmon, Making All Things New: Inaugurated Eschatology for the Life of the Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016).

 

Gleiser, Marcelo, The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning (New York: Basic Books, 2014).

 

Green, Gene L., Stephen T. Pardue and K. K. Yeo, eds., Jesus without Borders: Christology in the Majority World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014).

 

Gregersen, Niels Henrik, “Varieties of Personhood: Mapping the Issues” in Niels Gregersen, William B. Drees and Ulf Gorman, eds., The Human Person in Science and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).

 

Grenz, Stanley J., The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).

 

Grindheim, Sigurd, Living in the Kingdom of God: A Biblical Theology for the Life of the Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019).

 

Gushee, David P., Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023).

 

Hardwick, Lamar, How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2024).

 

Hellerman, Joseph H., The Ancient Church as Family (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001).

 

Heslam, Peter, ed., Globalization and the Good (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).

 

Hiebert, Paul G., Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).

 

Hoang, Bethany Hanke and Kristen Deede Johnson, The Justice Calling (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2016).

 

Hunter, James Davison, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

 

Kalantzis, George and Gregory W. Lee, Christian Political Witness (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014).

 

Kambara, Kary A., A Theology of Worship: ‘Singing’ a New Song to the Lord (2011). Online at https://4X12.org.

 

______, The Gender Equation in Human Identity and Function: Examining Our Theology and Practice, and Their Essential Equation (Gender Study, 2018). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, Hermeneutic of Worship Language: Understanding Communion with the Whole of God (Worship Language Study, 2013). Online at https://4X12.org.

 

______, Worshiping God in Likeness of the Trinity: Not Determined ‘in Their Way’ (Uncommon Worship Study, 2016). Online at https://4X12.org.

 

Keith, Chris and Larry W. Hurtado, eds., Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011).

 

Kuhn, Thomas S, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).

 

Küng, Hans, The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007).

 

Lanier, Jaren, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (New York: Alfred A, Knopf, 2010).

 

Lennox, John C., 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective, 2020).

 

Lynch, Gordon, Understanding Theology and Popular Culture, (Australia: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).

 

Malina, Bruce J., The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001).

 

Matsuo, T. Dave, “Did God Really Say That?” Theology in the Age of Reductionism (Theology Study, 2013). Online at https://4X12.org.

 

______, The Disciples of Whole Theology and Practice: Following the Diversity of Reformation or the Wholeness of Transformation (Discipleship Study: 2017). Online at https://www.4X12.org

 

______, The Diversity of the Integral Gospel: Repurposing Diversity to Re-image the Global Church (Diversity Study, 2022). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Essential Dimension & Quality for Theology & Practice: Discovering the Function of Music as Basic to Significance in Life (Study on Music-like Theology: 2019). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Feelings of Jesus’ Heart: His Whole Person’s Affective Narrative (Narrative Study, 2023). Online at https://www.4X12.org

 

______, Following Jesus, Knowing Christ: Engaging the Intimate Relational Process (Spirituality Study, 2003). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Face of the Trinity: The Trinitarian Essential for the Whole of God & Life (Trinity Study, 2016). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Global Church Engaging the Nature of Sin & the Human Condition: Reflecting, Reinforcing, Sustaining or Transforming (Global Church Study, 2016). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Gospel of Transformation: Distinguishing the Discipleship and Ecclesiology Integral to Salvation (Transformation Study, 2015). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Human Order of Creation & Its Political Theology for the New Creation: Distinguishing God’s Integral Way of Life (Political Theology Study: 2021). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, Interpretation Integrated in ‘the Whole-ly Way’: The Integral Education and Learning of Knowing and Understanding God (Bible Hermeneutics Study: 2019). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, Jesus’ Gospel of Essential Justice: The Human Order from Creation through Complete Salvation (Justice Study: 2018). Online at https://www.4X12.org

 

______, Jesus’ Gospel Protest, Voicing His Whole Gospel: The Bias, Naiveté or Integrity of Proclaiming the Gospel (Protest Study; 2024). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, Jesus into Paul: Embodying the Theology and Hermeneutic of the Whole Gospel (Integration Study, 2012). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, Learning the A,B,C&Ds of the Human Condition: An Education often Misplaced, Misinterpreted or Misinformed (Human Condition Study: 2024). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Person in Complete Context: The Whole of Theological Anthropology Distinguished (Theological Anthropology Study, 2014. Online: https://4X12.org.

 

______, The Person, the Trinity, the Church: The Call to Be Whole and the Lure of Reductionism (Wholeness Study, 2006). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Relational Progression: A Relational Theology of Discipleship (Discipleship Study, 2004). Online: https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, Sanctified Christology: A Theological & Functional Study of the Whole of Jesus (Christology Study, 2008). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, What’s Next? A New Future or Repeating the Past (Essay for Tomorrow: 2020). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

______, The Whole of Paul and the Whole in His Theology: Theological Interpretation in Relational Epistemic Process (Paul Study, 2010). Online at https://www.4X12.org.

 

McDonough, Sean M., Creation and New Creation: Understanding God’s Creation Project (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2016).

 

McGilchrist, Iain, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Modern World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

 

McKnight, Scot, Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2014).

 

Middleton, J. Richard, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2005).

 

Millar, J. Gary, Changed Into His Likeness: A Biblical Theology of Personal Transformation (Downers Grove, IL: Apollos/IVP Academic, 2021).

 

Moulton, Harold K., ed., The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978).

 

Niebuhr, H. Richard, Christ and Culture 50th-anniversary ed. (N.Y.: Harper San Francisco, 2001).

 

Nyquist, J. Paul, Is Justice Possible? The Elusive Pursuit of What Is Right (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2017).

 

Platt, David, Don’t Hold Back: Leaving Behind the American Gospel to Follow Jesus Fully (New York: Multnomah, 2023).

 

Ramachandra, Vinoth, Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues Shaping Our World (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008).

 

Rasmussen, Joshua, Who Are You, Really?: A Philosopher’s Inquiry into the Nature & Origin of Person (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2023).

 

Sapolsky, Robert M., “How humans are formed,” OP-ED, Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2014.

 

Schultze, Quentin J., Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002).

 

Shults, F. LeRon, Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).

 

Stott, John, Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies, rev. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2013).

 

Thacker, Jason, The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Thrive, 2020).

 

Turkle, Sherry, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (New York: Basic Books, 2011).

 

Volf, Miroslav, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

 

______, “Community Formation as an Image of the Triune God: A Congregation Model of Church Order and Life,” in Richard N. Longenecker, ed., Community Formation in the Early Church and in the Church Today (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002).

 

Volf, Miroslav and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Public Faith in Action: How to Think Carefully, Engage Wisely and Vote with Integrity (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2016).

 

Watzlawick, Paul, Janet Helmick Beavin, and Don D. Jackson, Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1967).

 

Welker, Michael, In God’s Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021).

 

Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Journey toward Justice: Personal Encounters in the Global South (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013).

 

Yeh, Allen, Polycentric Missiology: Twenty-First Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016). 

 

 

 

 

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