Section outline

  • Studying Mission

    Like all disciplines, missiology has a history. So we will look at some of the people who have marked that history, what they have been trying to do, what they contributed, what they neglected? What are the current trends and practices, where and why is mission studied?

    • Hans Kansdorf, “The Legacy of Gustav Warneck,” Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research 4:3 (1980): 102–7

    • Karl Müller, S.V.D., "The Legacy of Joseph Schmidlin," Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research 4:3 (1980): 109–13

    • Joseph Masson SJ, “The Legacy of Pierre Charles SJ”, Occasional Research in Mission Bulletin 2:4 (1978), 118–20


    • Albert Wu, “In the shadow of empire: Josef Schmidlin and Protestant–Catholic ecumenism before the Second World War,” Journal of Global History 13 (2018) 165–87.


    • Jeremy Best, “Godly, International, and Independent: German Protestant Missionary Loyalties before World War I,” Central European History 47:3 (2014) 585–611


    • Stefan Paas, “The Discipline of Missiology in 2016: Concerning the Place and Meaning of Missiology in the Theological Curriculum,” Calvin Theological Journal 51 (2016) 37–54


    • Pieter Verster,Missiology: Rise, demise and future at the university,” Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif 55:3–4 (2014) 879–93


    • Tom Steffen, Missiology's Journey for Acceptance in the Educational World,” Missiology 31:2 (2003) 131–53


    • The powerpoint for the second class on missiology as a discipline

    • Paul Kollmann, "Defining Mission Studies in the Third Millennium." In: The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies, eds. Kirsteen Kim (ed.), Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2022), 37-55.