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Is there a missiological approach to the history of mission? (1) Prompting this question is the fact that the history of mission is no longer the special preserve of those [...]

For a third time in twenty years, the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH has commissioned a survey of doctoral dissertations on mission. (1) As was the case in 1993, the [...]

The relationship between mission structures and theology is complex. Mission structures are a kind of 'theology on four wheels,' enfleshed demonstrations of a theoretical orientation to the world. As such, [...]

READERS OF THIS JOURNAL MAY ALREADY be familiar with a long-running series of books in which all the titles begin with a question, 'What are they saying about ...?' The [...]

Edited by John Witte, Jr. and Richard C. Martin Religion and Human Rights Series. Orbis, Maryknoll 1999. 441 pp. $20.00. ISBN 1-57075-276-1. WITH A HASTY GLANCE at the subtitle of [...]

God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, by Peter Partner. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1998. 391 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-691-00235-5. The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic [...]

The Future of Faith By Harvey Cox. New York: HarperOne, 2009. Pp. 245. $24.99. The future of faith is more faith. So contends Harvey Cox, whose most recent book has [...]

American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. By Heather J. Sharkey. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 318. $39.50. Heather Sharkey sets out to produce [...]

The Church In the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians And Muslims In The World Of Islam by Sidney H. Griffith Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008. 220 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-691-13015-6. […]

Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today By Stephen B. Bevans and Roger P. Schroeder Orbis, Maryknoll, 2004. 504 pp. $30.00. ISBN 1-57075-517-5. AT ONCE A KIND of [...]

Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Unto the Ends of the World. Edited by Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, and Karina Hestad Skeie. Leiden: Brill, [...]

Edited by David A. Kerr and Kenneth R. Ross. Oxford: Regnum Books; Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey International Univ. Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 343. Paperback $19.95. The centenary of the 1910 [...]

The Story of Evangelism: A History of the Witness to the Gospel. By Robert G. Tuttle, Jr. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 435. $30. Robert G. Tuttle, Jr., is [...]

As the academic field of missiology has matured over the past century, nearly everything about the discipline became more complex. Clearly, the field has expanded beyond the boundaries of applied theology. Among its practitioners today are both secular observers and scholars who are themselves actively involved in world missionary efforts. In no other part of the typical seminary curriculum, perhaps, do the concerns of so many different academic fields naturally intersect, including history, linguistics, anthropology, sociology of religion, communications, education, leadership, studies of organizational behavior and, of course, all of the theological sciences. With such a broad range of potential themes to pursue and so many scholarly conversation partners to engage, missiologists may be tempted to envision their field of study as an inchoate collection of all human knowledge. This article argues otherwise by proposing a detailed framework in outline form for the discipline, by which the main divisions and most central topics of the field can be indicated. To prepare the way for this new proposal, several existing classified bibliographies related to missiology are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]