Textbook List
BMin, BTheol, GradCertTh, GradDipTh, PGDipTh, MTh, DipCS(TS), DipCS(CL), BTh, BTh(Hons), DipCS(IS), PGCertTh
Semester 1, 2024
Christchurch, Henderson, Manukau, Distance Learning
Please Note
Books that are designated under “Required Texts” are books that you will need for your course. “Recommended Texts” will be helpful for your assignment writing and worthwhile texts to add to your library, but won’t be needed for course reading.
Following are websites that you can order your textbooks from. You can order through the Manna Store henderson@manna.co.nz or through Manna Online. If you choose to do this, allow plenty of time for delivery.
- www.fishpond.co.nz
- www.koorong.com
- www.amazon.com
- www.manna.co.nz
- www.churchstores.co.nz
- www.thenile.co.nz
Electronic books: Be aware that you can often buy the books cheaper through Amazon as electronic Kindle books. To read these you can down load free software “Kindle for PC” and read them on a laptop or you can buy a Kindle e-Reader or use a tablet (ipad etc). The advantages are price (often about $10) and instant delivery. The possible downside is having to read it on a laptop.
106 Hebrew 1
Required:
The class text is the online Living Biblical Hebrew 1, produced by the Biblical Language Center.
A link will be provided at the start of semester 1 for purchasing LBH1. Please only use this link to purchase this material.
108 Greek 1
Required:
The class texts are the online Living Koine Greek: An Introduction, Levels A-C, produced by the Biblical Language Center.
A link will be provided at the start of semester 1 for purchasing Living Koine Greek. Please only use this link to purchase this material.
111 Interpreting the Bible
No textbook.
115 Reading the Bible
Required:
Bartholomew, Craig G, and Michael W. Goheen. The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story. 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014.
125 Psalms
English Option Students
Recommended:
- Tremper Longman III, Psalms, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2014.
Hebrew Option Students
Required:
- Bill T. Arnold and John H. Choi, A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (2nd edition), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Recommended:
- Tremper Longman III, Psalms (TOTC) Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 2014.
- Ronald J. Williams, Williams’ Hebrew Syntax (3rd edition revised and expanded by John C. Beckman), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
140 Reading the New Testament
Required:
Keown, Mark J. Reading the New Testament. Auckland: Morphe, 2022.
Please contact Mark Keown for purchase details: mkeown@laidlaw.ac.nz
150 Gospels 1 (Synoptics)
Recommended:
Dale C. Allison Jr., The Sermon on the Mount. Inspiring the Moral Imagination, New York: Herder & Herder, 1999.
202 Christology
There is no required textbook for the course, as significant and detailed lecture notes are provided. However, students are encouraged to have access to the following:
- Michael Bird, Evangelical Theology, 2nd edn. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2020.
- Scott McKnight. A Community Called Atonement. Nashville: Abingdon, 2007.
- Myk Habets, The Anointed Son: A Trinitarian Spirit Christology. Eugene, OR.: Pickwick, 2010.
219 Ngākau Maia: Christian Confidence
Required:
- Goheen, M.W. The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology. Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2018.
An important text for this course which is not the textbook but is very much worth having access to is:
- Newbigin, Lesslie. Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
313 A History of Pacific Christianity
TBA
351 Research Topic 1: Christian Thought and History
Distance Learning
Required:
Nancy Jean Vyhmeister and Terry Robertson, Your Guide to Writing Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theology; 4th edn. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020.
352 Research Topic 2: Practical Theology
Distance Learning
Required:
Nancy Jean Vyhmeister and Terry Robertson, Your Guide to Writing Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theology; 4th edn. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020.
403 Spirituality for Ministry
No textbook.
474 Leadership Internship I
No textbook.
475 Leadership Internship II
No textbook.
478 Practicum I
No textbook.
479 Practicum II
No textbook.
480 Faithful Living: Intro to Reflective Practice
No textbook.
500 Connecting with Youth & Young Adults
No textbook.
505 Christian Leadership & Mission
No textbook.
513 Pastoral Care in Life’s Crises
No textbook.
579 Ngā Hunga Maia (Faith-led Māori Leadership)
There is no set textbook for this course but students must access this book as required reading:
Katene, Selwyn. The Spirit of Māori Leadership. Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2013.
605 Biblical and Contemporary Theology of Mission
Required:
Wright, Christopher J. H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative. Downer Groves: Inter Varsity Press, 2006.
Recommended:
Yeh, Allen. Polycentric Missiology: Twenty-First Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2016.
907 Bicultural Relationships: Tikanga Kawenata
Culpitt, I. (1994). Bicultural fragments: A Pakeha perspective. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 2, 48–62.
(Recommended Text)
Orange, C. (2013). The story of a Treaty. Bridget Williams Books.
(Recommended Text - e-book available)
Ritchie, J., & Rau, C. (2006). Whakawhanaungatanga: Partnerships in bicultural development in early childhood care and education. Teaching and Learning Research Initiative.
(Recommended Text)