Advanced Missiology: How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways - Hardcover

by Kenneth Nehrbass (Author)

Advanced Missiology draws the connections between the theory and practice of missions. Using the metaphor of a river, the book shows how theories "upstream" such as theology, education, anthropology, community development, and history have exerted an influence on missiology (and missiology, in turn, has gone back upstream to influence those disciplines). What causes these disciplines to converge in missiology is the goal of making disciples across cultures. Whereas missiologists are not always explicit about how their abstract theories actually relate to the task of making disciples across cultures, each chapter in Advanced Missiology shows how numerous theories, sub-fields, models, and strategies of missiology ultimately facilitate the Great Commission. The book argues that by using interdisciplinarity for this fundamental purpose, missiological studies will be more credible and useful. With contributions from: Rebecca Burnett Leanne Dzubinski Julie Martinez

Author Biography

Kenneth Nehrbass holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Biola University, and has taught missiology at Biola University and Belhaven University. He has authored more than sixty academic publications including books, articles, reviews, and a multi-language dictionary. He also serves with the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Seed Company as a translation consultant and an anthropology consultant. He and his wife Mendy lived in Vanuatu for ten years with their four children, where they advised a translation of the New Testament.