Category Archives: Theology of Missions
Culture and the Trinity
I just finished reading an excellent book, a published dissertation, by Eric Flett. Flett is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania. The book is entitled “Persons, Powers, and Pluralities: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Culture”. I wrote … Continue reading
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Blog Series on Insider Movements
On Between the Times, the faculty blog for Southeastern Seminary, a new series is being posted on a missiological strategy called “Insider Movements.” This series is being written by Dr. Doug Coleman,* a missionary to Muslims for over a decade, … Continue reading
Great Post on Insider Movements & Theology
Dr. Bruce Ashford is Dean of the College at Southeastern. He served a couple of years with the International Mission Board in Tatarstan, Russia, and has a PhD in Theology. If you love philosophy, you’ll enjoy reading his dissertation on … Continue reading
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Nathan Finn on the Mission of the Church
Nathan Finn is Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; and he has a serious missions streak. When he speaks on Christian mission, he usually does so very well. In light of Chris Wright’s … Continue reading
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Is Everybody a Missionary?
Thanks to Alan Knox from his blog The Assembling of the Church, I have been introduced to Miguel, a missionary from South America with Pathways International, who posts on their blog “God-Directed Deviations“. In a recent series of posts, Miguel has … Continue reading
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Resource: Missional Manifesto
A friend on facebook linked to the following declaration developed by a host of highly influential evangelical minister/theologian’s on how exactly we should understand the word “missional”. They entitled it the Missional Manifesto. A brief aside, notice that a majority of … Continue reading
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Evangelical Awakenings–Works of God, or of man?
In each of his volumes in the Evangelical Awakenings series, J. Edwin Orr opened with his oft-quoted definition of an Evangelical Awakening: An Evangelical Awakening is a movement of the Holy Spirit bringing about a revival of New Testament Christianity … Continue reading
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Paul — who was he?
I’ve just finished reading Eckhard Schnabel’s Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies, and Methods. The next several posts will be some of my reflections on this rather large work (though much smaller than his two volumes on similar themes!). There are … Continue reading
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missio Dei – Mission – Missions: How do they relate?
My colleague and friend, Keith Whitfield, has posted a series on defining the term “missional”, especially in light of the GCR Task Force report to the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention employing this term as an impetus for … Continue reading
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Missiology = Theology + Pragmatism ?
Having just read through some literature on the Church Growth Movement, I have started thinking about the relationship of theology, missions and pragmatism. For some, the word pragmatism carries negative connotations. Its the idea of doing something because it works. … Continue reading
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Paul Hiebert and Biblical Worldview
This is a continuation of my previous post In Transforming Worldviews, Paul Hiebert argues that the goal of conversion to Christianity includes the transformation of a worldview into a biblical worldview. Certainly being a noble goal, one wonders what he … Continue reading
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Father and Son Reflect on White and Black in South Africa
These are some touching stories of two South Africans now living missionally regarding being white and black: Cobus Van Wyngaard: Read his Journal starting on February 22 Arnau Van Wyngaard: Read this post on his Black Heart, then his story … Continue reading
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Life as Mission – part 4 of my growing understanding of a theology of mission
The following is the final post in a series summarizing my nascent thoughts on a theology of mission. You can view the previous post here. Merging missio Dei with missiones ecclesiae Thus, given a proper understanding of God’s providence and … Continue reading
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Messianic Expectation – part 3 of my growing understanding of a theology of mission
The following is a continuation of this post. missio Dei and the Biblical World This missio Dei flows throughout the grand story of scripture, from creation to consummation; it starts in Genesis chapter one and continues until Revelation chapter twenty-two. … Continue reading
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