The Legacy of Orlando Costas

1971 La iglesia y su misión evangelizadora. Buenos Aires: Editorial La Aurora.

1973 (comp.) Hacia una teología de la evangelización. Buenos Aires: Editorial La Aurora.

1973 Comunicación por medio de la predicacíon. Miami: Editorial Caribe. Reprinted 1978, 1982, 1984.

1974 The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World. Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House.

1975 El Protestantismo en América Latina hoy: Ensayos del Camino. San José, Costa Rica: Publicaciones IINDEF.

1976 Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

1979 Compromiso y misión: Una reflexión sobre la misión de la iglesia en este mundo de incertidumbre en que vivimos. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Caribe.

1979 The Integrity of Mission: The Inner Life and Outreach of the Church. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

1982 Christ Outside the Gate: Mission Beyond Christendom. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. 6th printing, 1992.

1986 Evangelización contextual. Fundamentos teológicos y pastorals. San José, Costa Rica: Seminario Bíblico Latinoamericano.

1989 Liberating News. A Theology of Contextual Evangelization. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.

The most complete catalog of Costas's written and oral production is found in Raul Fernández Calienes, “Bibliography of the Writings of Orlando E. Costas,” Missiology 17, no. 1 (1989): 87–105. Two extensive autobiographical essays from Costas are “Conversion as a Complex Experience,” in Down to Earth: Studies in Christianity and Culture, ed. Stott John R. W. Coote Robert T. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1980); and “Teólogo en la encrucijada,” in Hacia una teología evangélica latinoamericana, ed. Padilla C. René (Miami: Editorial Caribe, 1984). Tributes and notes with valuable biographical material are found in Today's Ministry: A Report from Andover Newton 5, no. 2 (Winter 1988); and “In Memoriam: Orlando E. Costas,” Pastoralia 10, nos. 20/21 (July–December 1988). For an extensive evaluation of Costas's missiology, see Barro Antonio , “Orlando Enrique Costas: Mission Theologian on the Way and at the Crossroads” (Ph.D. diss., Pasadena, Calif., Fuller Theological Seminary, 1993).