missiology
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Missiology is the academic study of the Christian mission history and methodology. It began to be developed as an academic discipline in the 19th century.
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- Instance of
- field of study
- Subclass of
- practical theology
- Part of
- theology
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- is the study of
- Christian mission
- topic's main category
- Category:Missiology
- Classification of Instructional Programs code
- 39.0301
- partially coincident with
- contextual theology
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Missiology is the academic study of the Christian mission history and methodology. It began to be developed as an academic discipline in the 19th century.
== Definition == Broadly speaking, missiology is "an interdisciplinary field of inquiry into Christian mission or missions that utilizes theological, historical, and various social scientific methods." It has historically focused on the missionary and evangelistic work of Protestant and Catholic denominations from Europe and North America into other continents. But the decline in Christian numbers in the West has been met by the rise of Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians in the Majority World "for which mission and evangelism are their raison d'être."
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