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Ammerman Nancy, Studying Congregations : A New Handbook. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Andrew, M. E., The Old Testament in Aotearoa New Zealand. Wellington [N.Z.]: Deft, 1999.

Bartholomew, Craig G., Colin J. D. Greene, and Karl Mèoller. Renewing Biblical Interpretation, Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar. Carlisle, Cumbria, UK, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Paternoster Press ;

Bauckham, Richard. "Mission as Hermeneutic for Scriptural Interpretation." Paper presented at the Currents in World Christianity Project, Cambridge, November 1999 1999.

Bediako, Kwame. ‘Biblical Christologies in the context of African Traditional Religions,’ in C Sugden and V Samuel, Sharing Jesus in the Two-Thirds World, Regnum, Oxford, 1983, 115-175.

Bevans, Stephen B. "God inside Out: Toward a Missionary Theology of the Holy Spirit." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 22, no. 3 (1998): 102–5.

Billington, Antony, Tony Lane, Max Turner, and Peter Cotterell. Mission and Meaning : Essays Presented to Peter Cotterell. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1995.

Bliese, Richard H. "Globalization." In Dictionary of Mission : Theology, History, Perspectives,, edited by Karl Müller, Theo Sundermeier, Stephen B. Bevans and Richard H. Bliese, 172-78. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997.

Bosch, David J. "Towards a Hermeneutic for Biblical Studies and Mission." Mission Studies VI, no. 3.2 (1986): 65-79.

Bosch, David Jacobus. Transforming Mission : Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission, American Society of Missiology Series ; No. 16. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1991.

Brinkman, Martien E. "Shifts in the Interpretation of Christian History: Cases from the Middle-East, Africa and Asia Compared." Exchange. Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research 29, no. 2 (2000): 97-116.

Brownson, James V. Speaking the Truth in Love : New Testament Resources for a Missional Hermeneutic, Christian Mission and Modern Culture. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Carriker, C. Timothy. "Missiological Hermeneutic and Pauline Apocalyptic Eschatology." In The Good News of the Kingdom, edited by Dean S Gilliland and Paul Pierson Charles Van Engen, 45-55. Maryknoll (N.Y.): Orbis, 1993.

De Groot, A. "One Bible and Many Interpretative Contexts: Hermeneutics in Missiology." In Missiology: An Ecumenical Introduction. Texts and Contexts of Global Christianity, edited by F J Verstraelen, A Camps, L A Hoedemaker and M R Spindler, 144-56. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.

Donaldson, Laura E., and R. S. Sugirtharajah. Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading, Semeia ; 75. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996.

Dube, Musa W., and Gerald West. Reading With : An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible : African Overtures, Semeia ; 73. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 1996.

Dyck, Elmer. The Act of Bible Reading : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1996.

Fee, Gordon D. Gospel and Spirit : Issues in New Testament Hermeneutics. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991.

Flett, John. "Is the Church Missionary by Its Very Nature?" New Slant, no. 27 (2002): 9-13.

Fornberg, Tord. Bible, Hermeneutics, Mission : A Contribution to the Contextual Study of Holy Scripture, Missio, 10. Uppsala: Swedish Institute for Missionary Research, 1995.

Goheen, Michael W. "as the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You": J.E. Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology. Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 2000.

Hardy, Daniel W. Finding the Church, London, SCM, 2001. This is written in relation to British Anglicans but is of wider significance. Note especially the chapters on Worship and the Missionary Being of the Church, 5-40.

Hiebert, Paul G. Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1994.

Hiebert, Paul G. The Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts : Affirming Truth in a Modern/Postmodern World, Christian Mission and Modern Culture. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Hogg, A. G. Karma and Redemption; an Essay toward the Interpretation of Hinduism and the Re-Statement of Christianity. <Madras>: Christian Literature Society, 1970.

Hunsberger, George R. Bearing the Witness of the Spirit. Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of  Cultural Plurality. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.

Kirk, J. Andrew. What Is Mission? Theological Explorations. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1999.

Kim, Dae Ryeong. "Toward a Missiological Approach to Hermeneutics for Gospel Proclamation in a Post-Modern World." Fuller Theological Seminary. (some sections available on the www)

Kritzinger, J. N. J., and W. A. Saayman, eds. Mission in Creative Tension: A Dialogue with David Bosch. Pretoria, South Africa: South African Missiological Society, 1990.

Kwon, Ho Youn. Korean Cultural Roots : Religion and Social Thoughts. Chicago, Ill.: Integrated Technical Resources, 1995.

Larkin, William J. Culture and Biblical Hermeneutics : Interpreting and Applying the Authoritative Word in a Relativistic Age. Grand Rapids, MI:: Baker, 1989.

Mission Theological Advisory Group, Presence and Prophecy. A heart for mission in theological education, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2002.

Mudge, Lewis Seymour. Rethinking the Beloved Community : Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, Social Theory. Geneva. Lanham, MD: WCC Publications ; University Press of America, 2000.

Müller, Karl, Theo Sundermeier, Stephen B. Bevans, and Richard H. Bliese, eds. Dictionary of Mission : Theology, History, Perspectives, American Society of Missiology Series ; No. 24. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997.

“On Intercultural Hermeneutics : Report of a WCC Consultation, Jerusalem, 5-12 December 1995” International Review of Mission 85 (April 1996), p. 241-252. Republished in James A. cherer and Stephen B. Bevans, eds. New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 3. Faith and Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999, 185-195.

Osborne, Grant R. The Hermeneutical Spiral.  A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1991.

Pillay, Gerald J. "Text, Paradigms and Context: An Examination of David Bosch's Use of Paradigms in the Reading of Christian History." In Mission in Creative Tension: A Dialogue with David Bosch, edited by J. N. J. Kritzinger and W. A. Saayman, 109-23. Menlo Park: South African Missiological Society, 1990.

Ricoeur, Paul. Essays on Biblical Interpretation: Fortress Press, 1980 online

Roxborogh, John. "Is mission our only mission? Revisiting the Missionary Nature of the Church." Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Mission Studies Inaugural Conference Bible College of New Zealand, 27-28 November 2000 (2001).

Roxborogh, John. "The History and Scope of BISAM within IAMS: 1972 - 1992." In To Caste Fire Upon the Earth: Bible and Mission Collaborating in Today's Multicultural Global Context, edited by Teresa Okure. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications, 2000.

Roxborogh, John. "Whose History and Whose Theology? Reflections from Malaysia on the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World." Mission Studies VIII-1, no. 15 (1991): 93-103.

Saayman, Willem, and Klippies Kritzinger, eds. Mission in Bold Humility. David Bosch's Work Considered. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996.

Sanneh, Lamin O. Encountering the West : Christianity and the Global Cultural Process : The African Dimension. London: Marshall Pickering, 1993.

Sanneh, Lamin O. Translating the Message : The Missionary Impact on Culture, American Society of Missiology Series ; No. 13. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1989.

Scherer, James A., and Stephen B. Bevans, eds. New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 3. Faith and Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999.

Schneiders, Sandra M. “Hermeneutics” in Brown Raymond, E., A. Fitzmyer Joseph, and E. Murphy Roland. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. London: Geoffrey Chapman 1995, 1995.

Schreiter, Robert J. Constructing Local Theologies. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1985.

Schreiter, Robert J. The New Catholicity. Theology between the Global and the Local. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999.

Smith-Christopher, Daniel, ed. Text and Experience. Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Spindler, Marc, and P R Middelkoop, eds. Bible and Mission. A Partially Annotated Bibliography 1960-1980. Leiden-Utrecht:: Interuniversitair Instituut voor Missiologie en Oecumenica, 1981.

Spindler, Marc R, and John Pobee. "Workshop 4 Hermeneutics of Mission." Missiology 7, no. 1 (1979): 81-85.

Stackhouse, Max L., and Peter J. Paris. God and Globalization, Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000.

Sugirtharajah, R. S. Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism : Contesting the Interpretations, The Biblical Seminar ; 64. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Tolbert, Mary Ann. The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics, Semeia ; 28. Chico, Calif.: Society of Biblical Literature, 1983.

Towner, Philip H. "Paradigms Lost: Mission to the Kosmos in John and in David Bosch's Biblical Models of Mission." Evangelical Quarterly 67, no. 2 (1995): 99-119.

Van Gelder, Craig. Confident Witness--Changing World : Rediscovering the Gospel in North America, The Gospel and Our Culture Series. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J. First Theology : God, Scripture & Hermeneutics. Downers Grove, Ill. Leicester, England: InterVarsity Press ; Apollos, 2002.

Walls, Andrew F. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History : Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith. Maryknoll, N.Y. Edinburgh: Orbis Books; T&T Clark, 2002.

Walls, Andrew F. "The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture" reprinted in James A Scherer and Stephen B. Bevans, eds. New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 3. Faith and Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999, 17-28.

Walls, Andrew F. The Missionary Movement in Christian History : Studies in the Transmission of Faith. Maryknoll, N.Y. and Edinburgh: Orbis Books and T&T Clark, 1996.

Watson, Francis. Text and Truth : Redefining Biblical Theology. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997.

Watson, Francis. Text, Church and World : Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994. (Review)

West, Gerald O., Musa W. Dube, and Literature Society of Biblical. "Reading with" : An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible : African Overtures, Semeia ; 73. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1996.

West, Gerald. Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation. Modes of Reading the Bible in the South African Context. 2nd revised ed. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications, 1995.

White, Hugh C. Speech Act Theory and Biblical Criticism, Semeia ; 41. Decatur, GA: Scholars Press, 1988.

Wright, Chris. Living as the People of God : The Relevance of Old Testament Ethics. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1983.