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An apocalyptic agenda for mission in our time

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Addressing the interest in missional theology and responding to the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this research developed an apocalyptic missional theology for our time.
Arnold M. Meiring
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Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 77-95, April 2024.
Abstract This essay proposes a moral epistemological explanation for many US evangelicals’ growing unease about proselytizing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at a church in Nashville, Tennessee, it highlights how a particular kind of epistemological certainty became a driving value of evangelical biblicism when early nineteenth‐century evangelicals ...
Sam Victor
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Missiology in an African Context: Toward a New Language

, 2003
The present paper discusses the question of missiology in an African context and raises the following questions: What has been the prevailing missiology in Africa? What can Africans say about missiology in the new century?
Francis Anekwe Oborji
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Globalisation of missions: An exegesis on the Great Commission (Mt 28:18–20)

In die Skriflig, 2018
This article is an exegesis on the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18–20 by using a grammatical historical approach. A grammatical historical approach on Matthew 28:18–20 demonstrates that Jesus’ authority in heaven and on earth is a global authority ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Missiology as a Discipline: Its Dimensions and Scope

, 2021
At its most fundamental level, missiology simply refers to the study of mission. This basic understanding, however, invites further reflection. What and whose mission ought to be studied?
Twibell, Simone
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The story of the Department of Practical Theology

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009
This article tells the story of the development of the Department of Practical Theology of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria. The story goes back to the start of the Faculty in 1938, although the Department of Practical Theology was ...
Elsje P. B�chner, Julian C. M�ller
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Black-ish Missiology: A Critique of Mission Studies and Appeal for Inclusion in the United States Context

, 2020
Using the idiomatic expression found in the United States, this essay contends that the current field of missiology is black-ish. The expression is used to describe something purports to be Black (African American), but upon close inspection may not be ...
Dwight A. Radcliff
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The Third World evangelical missiology of Orlando E. Costas

, 2012
This thesis examines the missiological writings of Orlando E. Costas (1943-1987), particularly The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (1974); Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America (1976); Christ Outside ...
Tippner, Jeffrey E.
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The concept of the “missionary field”: the evolution of approaches and the experience of detailing (on the example of modern Buryatia) [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института
The article examines the evolution of the concept of the missionary field from the standpoint of interdisciplinary analysis, using theological, historical and sociological approaches. A gradual transition from a naturalistic understanding of the field to
Maria S. Alekseeva, Svetlana V. Vasilyeva   +1 more
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Missiology which way?

, 1989
Text of inaugural address delivered on April 27, 1989 in the Dept of Science of Religion and MissiologyAn effort has been made to define missiology. It is the study of the salvation that God has provided for the world in Christ and through the Holy ...
Crafford, D.
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