COS 513 - Our Mission from God: Transforming Agent

Instructor: Sue C, D’Alessio
Contact: sdalessio@cal-pac.org

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Required Textbooks

Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. - Good News to the Poor: John Wesley’s Evangelical Economics (Abingdon Press, 1990; ISBN 9780687155286)

Peter John Storey - With God in the Crucible: Preaching Costly Discipleship (Abingdon Press, 2002; ISBN 9780687052530)

Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi - Mission: An Essential Guide (Abingdon Press, 1999; ISBN 9780687054725)

Andrew Kirk - What is Mission? (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2000; ISBN 9780800632335)

Dana L. Robert - Christian Mission (Blackwell Publications, 3/2009, ISBN 9780631236207)

Recommended Textbooks

Philip Jenkins - The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2003; ISBN 0195168917)

Tex Sample - Hard Living People & Mainstream Churches (Abingdon Press, 1993; ISBN 9780687179312)

Carlyle Fielding Steward III, editor - Growing the African American Church (Abingdon Press, 2006; ISBN 9780687498390)

David Chidester - Christianity: A Global History (Harper San Francisco, 2001; ISBN 0062517708)

Donald E. Messer - A Conspiracy of Goodness: Contemporary Images of Christian Mission (Abingdon Press, 1992; ISBN 0687094844)