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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...

risks of personal identity are still germane to mission work today. Thus, I spend a great deal of time on Christian history (not just “mission history”)—mostly on the period from the sixteenth century on. A historical study of Christian mission, however, must not stand alone. After looking at the historical contexts, it is necessary to think theologically and biblically about missiology. Missiology must be firmly rooted in a trinitarian understanding of God from which emerge various structures (means
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