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Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory is unavailable, but you can change that!

This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian missions historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address...

What you are about to read is an introductory book on missiology: the study of Christian mission. Unlike biology (the study of living things) or even Christology (the study of the person and work of Christ), the study of missiology as an academic discipline has developed fairly recently. Many students of theology, and even more church members, know more about the meaning of psychology or necrology, than of missiology. There is some confusion as to whether missiology is basically a practical
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