Presbyterian Mission History (12th of 12): A Bibliography
Below are all the books and articles I could find that illuminate the topic “Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission in Presbyterian mission history.” These books and articles are all in my possession. If they are available for sale or on the internet I have linked them to a website for the reader’s convenience.
- Bailey, Kenneth E. A Tale of Three Cities: An Analysis of Presbyterian Mission Policies. Pasadena: Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies, 1989.
- Becker, Caroline N. “Missionaries Speak.” In A History of Presbyterian Missions 1944-2007 Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008.
- Blincoe, Robert A. “Desired Symbiosis: Church and Mission Structures.” In International Journal of Frontier Missions 19, no. 3 (2002): 43-46.
- ———. Still Two Structures After All These Years. In International Journal of Frontier Missions 19, no. 1 (2002): 5-8.
- ———. How Denominational and Mission Offices Can Do More by Doing Less. In International Journal of Frontier Missions 19, no. 2 (2002): 5-9
- Blincoe, Robert A. A New Social Contract Relating Mission Societies to Ecclesiastical Structures. Pasadena: William Carey International University Press, 2012.
- Boyd, Lois A., R. Douglas Brackenridge, and The Presbyterian Historical Society. Presbyterian Women in America: Two Centuries of a Quest for Status. Contributions to the Study of Religion. 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Brown, Arthur Judson. One Hundred Years: A History of the Foreign Missionary Work of the Presbyterian Church in the USA. New York: Revell, 1936. Blincoe: Tremendous book with lots of missionary biographies. Unfortunately, the book begins in 1837 with no mention of the 44 Presbyterian missionaries who were already overseas with the ABCFM.
- Brown, G. Thompson. “Rethinking Some Modern-Day Shibboleths.” Missiology 12 (1984): 87-95.
- Brown, G. Thompson and Donald T. Black. “Structures for a Changing Church.” In A History of Presbyterian Missions 1944-2007. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008
- Coalter, Milton J., John M. Mulder, and Louis B. Weeks. “Introduction.” In The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians and American Denominationalism Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.
- Cormode, D. Scott. “A Financial History of Presbyterian Congregations since World War Two.” In The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians and American Denominationalism Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.[8]
- Dawson, David G. “Counting the Cost.” In A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2007 Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008.
- ———. “The Evolving Role of Presbytery after Christendom.” Unpublished (March 23 2005, March 23).
- ———. “A Mission Funding System for the 21st Century.” In Yale-Edinburgh Study Group, July 1-3: New College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2004.
———. “A Recurring Issue of Mission Administration.” Missiology 25, no. 4 (1997): 457-65.
- Drury, Clifford Merrill. Presbyterian Panorama; One Hundred and Fifty Years of National Missions History. Philadelphia,: Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1952.
- Eller, Gary S. “Special Interest Groups and American Presbyterianism.” In The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians and American Denominationalism Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992
- George, Sherron. “Faithfulness through the Storm: Changing Theology of Mission.” In A History of Presbyterian Mission, 1944-2007 Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008.
- Guder, Darrell L. The Continuing Conversion of the Church. The Gospel and Our Culture Series. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
- ———. “Missional Structures: The Particular Community.” In Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
- ———. “Para-Parochial Movements: The Religious Order Revisited.” Vanderbilt University, September, 1994. Unpublished
- Hutcheson, Richard G. Wheel within the Wheel: Confronting the Management Crisis of the Pluralistic Church. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979.
- Johnson, Douglas W. Program Dissensus between Denominational Grass Roots and Leadership and Its Consequences. In American Denominational Organization. Edited by Ross P. Scherer. Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1980.
- LaFollette, Joan C. “Presbyterian Women’s Organizations.” In The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians and American Denominationalism Louisville, KY: Westminster Press, John Knox, 1992.
- Loetscher, Lefferts Augustine. A Brief History of the Presbyterians. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1958.
- Marsden, George M. The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience; a Case Study of Thought and Theology in Nineteenth-Century America. Yale University Press, 1970.
- Mellis, Charles J. Committed Communities: Fresh Streams for World Missions. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1976.
- Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. Edited by Stated Clerk. Philadelphia.
- In Reimagining Denominationalism 264-87. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Pierson, Paul E. “Presbyterian Missions.” In Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000.
- Rice, Ronald B. “Congregational Giving to Denominational Mission within the United Presbyterian Church.” Doctoral of Ministry thesis, San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1978.
- Scherer, Ross P. American Denominational Organization: A Sociological View. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1980.
- Smylie, James H., Dean K. Thompson, Cary Patrick, and Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Go Therefore: 150 Years of Presbyterians in Global Mission. Atlanta: Presbyterian Publishing House, 1987. Blincoe: A great book. It only suffers from its tell-tale starting date (1837).
- Sunquist, Scott, and Caroline Becker Long. A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2007. 1st ed. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008.
- Theriault, Judy. “Presbyterian Women: Coffee, Tea, Advocacy? Or Something More?”. Pasadena: Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies, 1995.
- Theriault, Judy. “Presbyterian Women-Let’s Do It Again!”. Pasadena, CA: Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies, 1995.
- Vander Werff, Lyle L. Christian Mission to Muslims: The Record: Anglican and Reformed Approaches in India and the near East, 1800-1938. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1977.
- Watson, Cody U. Mission Orders and the Presbyterian Church. Pasadena: Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies, 1989.
- Weston, William J. Presbyterian Pluralism: Competition in a Protestant House. 1st ed. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
- Weingartner, Robert. “Missions within the Mission.” In A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2007 Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008.
- Winter, Ralph D. “Churches Need Missions Because Modalities Need Sodalities.” Evangelical Missions Quarterly 7, no. 3 (July July 1971): 193-200.
- ———. “Four Men, Three Eras.”
- ———. “Ghana: Preparation for Marriage.” International Review of Mission 17 (1978): 338-53.
- ———. “How to Run a Mission Society.” In Mission Frontiers (1990).
- ———. “The New Missions and the Mission of the Church.” International Review of Mission 60, no. 1 (1971, January): 89-100.
- ———. “Paul and the Regions Beyond.” Asia Missions Advance (July 11-15 1979 July 11-15).
- ———. “The Planting of Younger Missions.” In Christian/Mission Tensions Today, edited by C. Peter Wagner. Grand Rapids: Moody Press, 1972.
- ———. “A Plea for Mission Orders.” Chicago: COEMAR Conference, August, 1970.
- ———. “Protestant Mission Societies and the ‘Other Protestant Schism’.” In American Denominational Organization Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1980.
- ———. “Protestant Mission Societies: The American Experience.” Missiology 7, no. 2 (April 1979): 139-78.
- ———. “The Rise and Fall of the IMC, and Today.” International Journal of Frontier Missions 20, no. 1 (2003).
- ———. “Sodality and Modality.” In Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000.
- ———. “The Story of the P.C.M.S., P.U.M.A., P.O.W.E., and the P.F.F.”: Worldwide Ministries Division of the P.C.U.S.A., Louisville, KY, October 26, 1995.
- ———. “The Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission.” Missiology 2, no. 1 (January 1974): 121-39.
- ———. “Type A, B, C, Versus Type D Mission Structures, a Comparison.” William Carey Library, 1980.
- Winter, Ralph D., and R. Pierce Beaver. The Warp and the Woof; Organizing for Mission. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1970.
- Wuthnow, Robert. “The Growth of Special Purpose Groups.” Chap. Six In The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War 2. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
- ———. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War 2. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Presbyterian Mission History. This is Blog #12 in a series 12:
- What Francis Makemie Envisioned : Beneficial Relationships between Presbyterian Churches and Mission Agencies
- What Early Presbyterian Churches Enjoyed: Denominational Support for Voluntary Societies
- How the General Assembly of 1837 Expelled 60,000 church members on account of their partnership with mission agencies.
- The General Assembly Establishes the Board of Foreign Missions. An Extraordinary Mission Era Begins.
- Exemplary Presbyterian Missionaries of the 19th Century
- Exemplary Presbyterian Missionaries of the 20th Century
- Ninety-Five Notable Presbyterian Missionaries in Gerald Anderson’s Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
- The Extraordinary Rise of Presbyterian Women’s Mission Societies following the Civil War
- What the General Assembly of 1902 Endorsed: Recognition and Regulation of “Special Interest Organizations.”
- Time to say Good-bye, Perhaps. How Everything Seems to be Ending.
- This is not the End. The Holy Spirit Enables New Mission Initiatives.
- Presbyterian Mission History: A Bibliography.