Section outline

  • What is Mission?

    This class will offer an overview of the course. We will concentrate on particular stories, seeing what they can tell us about how to understand mission. But first we begin by offering definitions of mission – what kind of images, thoughts, expectations, fears, hopes, etc., does the word evoke? In order to progress further in the class, what will we need to consider, what do we need to know, what do we need to confront?

    • The Five Marks of Mission 1 File PDF

      Here is a historical overview of how the Anglican Church's Five Marks of Mission came into being. The article details are:

      Jesse Zink, “Five Marks of Mission: History, Theology, Critique,” Journal of Anglican Studies 15:2 144–66.


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    • The Five Marks of Mission 2 File PDF

      Cathy Ross, “Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission: A British Perspective,” in Mission in Secularised Contexts of Europe. Contemporary Narratives and Experiences, edited by Marina Ngursangzeli Behera, Michael Biehl, Knud Jørgensen. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2018), 111–22.


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    • The Five Marks of Mission 3 File PDF

      Jonathan Draper, “Evangelism and the Five Marks of Mission,” Modern Believing 60:3 (2019) 261–68.


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    • Powerpoint File PPTX

      This is the powerpoint covering the first and part of the second class

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    • Lausanne 4 Reflection URL

      In September 2024 the Lausanne Conference met in Seoul for its fourth global meeting. The Lausanne Conference began in 1974, as a meeting place for evangelicals who were not entirely happy with the World Council of Churches. It has focused very much on mission. The link is to a critical analysis of the meeting in Seoul by a Filipino theologian Rei Lemuel Crizaldo. It will give you some idea as to the issues about mission that still occupy and to some extent divide many evangelicals. We will talk about integral mission later in the course.