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missiology

missiology

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The study of religious work and how it affects people and cultures
  • noun
  • /ˌmɪsiˈɑlədʒi/
  • Specialized
: misiología
  • The text notes the convergences on ecclesiology from the international bilateral dialogues, and it harvests insights from contemporary missiology, especially the concept of the Missio Dei.

Examples

  • Italian Pentecostal missiology contrasted sharply with the immigrant home mission work of the mainline Protestant denominations.

    Academic text (2000)

  • One can find various theological streams and various theologians in agreement that missiology has been an underrepresented aspect in theological discussions surrounding Scriptural interpretation.

    Blog text (12)

  • Since this is an article in ecclesiology, I will focus on the situation of the Church and leave the situation of the world to the larger concern of missiology.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The churches' missiology constitutes the major reason the Italian Pentecostal groups remained ethnically separate, unconnected officially to the larger Pentecostal movement.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The Italian Pentecostals' use of language and their sense of community and missiology were conscious, overt expressions of cultural identity central to the Italian propagation of Pentecostalism.

    Academic text (2000)

  • "A new Pentecost," by projecting a pneumatological horizon, invites continual revision of missiology in light of and in service to the Holy Spirit as the source and guide for mission.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Those who endorsed it did not embrace everything in the policy statement; however, they acknowledged that interfaith relations raise fundamental theological questions of Christology, ecclesiology, missiology, and ethics.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Similar work is being pursued by the Department of Missiology at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria, right in the shadow of the Voortrekker monument, which might be described as the emotional "soul" of Afrikanerdom.

    Academic text (1990)

  • At the same time, they were also culturally and ethnically Italian in the importance placed on language, on the centrality of their ethno-centric missiology and communal ethic, and on the perpetuation and adaptation of Old World customs and traditions.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The university offers a specialized program in missiology that explores the impact of missionary work throughout history.

Surface Forms

missiology singular
missiologies plural

Morphology

missiology = mission (semi-transparent) = mission + ology

The word is a regular learned formation from 'mission' plus '-ology', but the specialized academic sense and the missio- spelling make it slightly less straightforward.

Etymology

Missiology comes from the word mission, from an old word meaning 'to send', and the ending -logy, a common ending meaning 'study of' as in biology. So missiology is the study of missions and missionary work.