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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...

the ecumenical movement beginning with the 1938 Tambaram (Madras) International Missionary Council (IMC) meeting. This opened up a discussion that continued through the rest of the century on what it means, theologically and practically, for the church—for any and every local church—to participate in God’s mission. Missiology Applied to the West It was J. E. Lesslie Newbigin, English Presbyterian missionary to India, who developed missional thought for the Western church. His writings, especially
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