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The April 2020 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the broad and multifaceted theme of “The Next Generation and Missions.” Papers are welcome that take up any number of related topics, including:

  • Reaching younger generations with the gospel in various parts of the world
  • Participation in Christian missions ...

The question, “What is missiology?” is one I have been asked many times by those wholly unfamiliar with the discipline or with any theology-related discipline, for that matter. I have learned over the years to offer up relatively simple (perhaps simplistic) answers depending on my interlocutor (e.g., “Missiology explores ...

Missiology—or sometimes “mission studies”— is the study of Christian mission(s). Every generation of Christians has asked what Jesus Christ requires of his disciples, and Christians have been learning and teaching how to share the good news for more than two millennia. However, missiology emerged as a field of ...

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Missiology Podcast host Martin Rodriguez and producer Greg McKinzie reflect on Season ...

A few years ago, I was checking in at an airline counter for an overseas flight. When the attendant noticed the prefix “Dr.” on my name, she asked in what field was I a doctor (often airlines like to know if there is a physician onboard). I told her I ...

Missiology is “the systematic study of all aspects of mission.” I am borrowing here Andrew Walls’s (and in turn Stanley Skreslet’s) definition.1 Let me explain.

The simple, straightforward answer to the simple, straightforward question “What is missiology?” can be taken from its component terms missio and logos ...