Advanced Missiology

How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways

Kenneth Nehrbass

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781725272224
  9781725272231
• eBook ISBN:
  9781725272248
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

Advanced Missiology draws the connections between the theory and practice of missions. Using the metaphor of a river, the book shows how theories "upstream" such as theology, education, anthropology, community development, and history have exerted an influence on missiology (and missiology, in turn, has gone back upstream to influence those disciplines). What causes these disciplines to converge in missiology is the goal of making disciples across cultures. Whereas missiologists are not always explicit about how their abstract theories actually relate to the task of making disciples across cultures, each chapter in Advanced Missiology shows how numerous theories, sub-fields, models, and strategies of missiology ultimately facilitate the Great Commission. The book argues that by using interdisciplinarity for this fundamental purpose, missiological studies will be more credible and useful. With contributions from: Rebecca Burnett Leanne Dzubinski Julie Martinez

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Multiple Disciplines of Missiology
• Chapter 2: Connecting Theology to Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 3: Connecting the History of Missions to Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 4: Connecting Anthropology to Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 5: Connecting Intercultural Studies to Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 6: Connecting Development Theories to Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 7: Connecting Education to Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 8: Defining Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 9: Seminal Theories of Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 10: Seminal Models for Cross-Cultural Discipleship
• Chapter 11: The Future of Missiology
• Contributors’ Biographies
• Bibliography