Semester One 2025
You can purchase your textbooks online e.g. Fishpond, Amazon or Church Stores (Ellerslie, Auckland – Ph +64 9 525 1380). Church Stores also has some titles in stock and offers a discount to Carey students. You should order for delivery in time for the start of semester (3 March 2025). Carey does not stock textbooks.
There is an Intermission class set of Living at the Crossroads available for students to use instead of purchasing their own copy.
Undergraduate Courses
INTERMISSION COURSES
Course
Required Textbook
Recommended Reading
MB430
Exploring God’s Word
Exploring God’s Word
There is no one compulsory textbook for this paper as each lecture will have set readings either provided on CareyOnline or in the Reserve Section of the library.
MF409
Learning to Live
Learning to Live
Ahlberg Calhoun, Adele. Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us. Revised Edition. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015.
ISBN: 9780830846054.
e-book available (9780830899111)
ISBN: 9780830846054.
e-book available (9780830899111)
BIBLE AND THEOLOGY COURSES
Course
Required Textbook
Recommended Reading
MB532
Intro to New Testament
Intro to New Testament
Powell, Mark Allan. Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey. 2nd edition. Baker Academic, 2018.
ISBN: 9780801099601
e-book available (9781493413133
ISBN: 9780801099601
e-book available (9781493413133
MMB6/735
Gospels: Luke
Gospels: Luke
Level 6 and Level 7
All required readings will be available through CareyOnline.
All required readings will be available through CareyOnline.
MB6/732
Spirit and Church
Spirit and Church
Greggs, Tom. Dogmatic Ecclesiology: The Priestly Catholicity of the Church, Vol. 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019.
ISBN: 9780801097898
e-book available (1493419722)
and
Gupta, Nijay K. Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2024.
ISBN: 9781587435171
ebook available (9781493444922)
ISBN: 9780801097898
e-book available (1493419722)
and
Gupta, Nijay K. Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2024.
ISBN: 9781587435171
ebook available (9781493444922)
MB6/731
Prophets: A Canonical Reading
Prophets: A Canonical Reading
Hays, J. Daniel. The Message of the Prophets: A Survey of the Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books of the Old Testament. Edited by Tremper Longman, III. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.
ISBN: 9780310271529
and
Brueggemann, Walter. The Prophetic Imagination: 40th Anniversary Edition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.
ISBN: 1506449301, 9781506449302
e-book available (9781506449319)
ISBN: 9780310271529
and
Brueggemann, Walter. The Prophetic Imagination: 40th Anniversary Edition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.
ISBN: 1506449301, 9781506449302
e-book available (9781506449319)
MISSION, MINISTRY AND FORMATION COURSES
Course
Required Textbook
Recommended Reading
MM581
Mission of God
Mission of God
Wright, Christopher J. H. The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.
ISBN: 9780310291121
e-book available (9780310323037)
ISBN: 9780310291121
e-book available (9780310323037)
MM561
Introduction to Pastoral Care
Introduction to Pastoral Care
Baab, Lynne. Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral care in the Twenty-First Century. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.
ISBN: 9781506434278
e-book available (9781506434285)
ISBN: 9781506434278
e-book available (9781506434285)
MM572
Foundations of Youth Ministry
Foundations of Youth Ministry
Clark, Chap, ed. Adoptive Youth Ministry: Integrating Emerging Generations into the Family of Faith. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016.
ISBN: 9780801049705
e-book available (9781493400034)
ISBN: 9780801049705
e-book available (9781493400034)
MS6/705
Christian Spirituality
Christian Spirituality
Sittser, Gerald L. Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.
ISBN: 9780830834938
e-book available (9780830879977)
Smith, Karen E. Christian Spirituality. London: SCM Press, 2007.
ISBN: 9780334040422
ISBN: 9780830834938
e-book available (9780830879977)
Smith, Karen E. Christian Spirituality. London: SCM Press, 2007.
ISBN: 9780334040422
Postgraduate Courses 2025
Course
Required Textbook
Recommended Reading
MA801
Research Methods
Research Methods
Swinton, J. and H. Mowat. Practical Theology and Qualitative Research. 2nd ed. London: SCM Press, 2016.
ISBN: 9780334049883
e-book available (9780334049906)
and
Smith, Kevin Gary. Writing and Research: A Guide for Theology Students. Carlisle: Langham Global Library, 2016.
ISBN:9781783688951
e-book available (9781783680764)
ISBN: 9780334049883
e-book available (9780334049906)
and
Smith, Kevin Gary. Writing and Research: A Guide for Theology Students. Carlisle: Langham Global Library, 2016.
ISBN:9781783688951
e-book available (9781783680764)
Both will be on reserve in the library and also accessible as e-books through the Carey Library catalogue
MA826
Bible and Politics
Bible and Politics
No textbook required
MA828
Gospel and Discipleship
Gospel and Discipleship
There is no set textbook for this course.
Required readings will be provided for each module via CareyOnline
Required readings will be provided for each module via CareyOnline
You are encouraged to invest in two quality exegetical/critical commentaries on the Gospel according to Mark for your work in this course. An annotated list of such commentaries and other useful reading is available from the lecturer.