Christian Mission and Victorian Imperialism

This paper explores the role that Christian mission had in the development of Victorian Imperialism.

Matthew Parris on Christian Mission in Africa

Matthew Parris is an atheist, and so gives this insight to something that is meaningful and effective because people care. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and The Times Christmas Appeal includes a small British charity working there. Pump [...]

Missiology Assignment

The office is now open to receive hardcopy of your module assignment: The student will produce a 3000 word assignment entitled: What are the Biblical Foundations of Mission? The assignment will  comprise a) an introduction to the theme of “The Bible as a Mission Book”, b) a  cumulative summary of the mission emphasis from each [...]

The Missiology of the Pharisees

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel about on sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves,” Matthew 23:15. An article by Terry Seufferlein http://www.ovc.edu/missions/jam/pharisee.htm   Jesus’ denunciation of the Pharisees comes in the middle of an [...]

Missiology- the Letters of Paul

Here’s the forthcoming lecture outline for paul-on-mission.ppt : a gentle introduction to a massive subject:)

Mission in Paul: Book Review

Gospel and Mission in the Writings of Paul: An Exegetical and Theological Analysis, by P. T. O’Brien. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993. Pp. xiv-161. $9.99 (paper). [Reviewed by Robert Decker.] O’Brien’s thesis is that the apostle Paul is not only an example to be emulated in regards to his goals, attitudes, and behavior as [...]

Missiology: Matthew’s View of Mission

This week’s seminar was intended to cover the gospels, but it’s just all too interesting! Instead we will consider matthew_s-view-of-mission.ppt and do our best to make up the time later. Thank you for the biblical material appearing on your weblogs now. I’m looking forward to reading your reviews of Glasser.

Missiology: Mission in the Psalms

mission-in-the-psalms.doc Here’s the lecture notes for the forthcoming session on Mission in the Psalms. Make sure that you are up to date with your own reading (Glasser should be finished by now) and writing (by next week you should each have five missiology papers posted on your blog.

ASSIGNMENTS/ SCHEDULES AUTUMN 07

A number of queries about the assignments which should be completed by Christmas, so just a quick post to check that we’re all singing from the same hymnsheet(!).

Missiology: The Prophets and their Mission

I  have been reading an article for the Missiology classentitled, The Biblical Foundation of the Mission of the Church by Robert Dobbie 1962. Dobbie does a wonderful job of setting the context for the Jewish idea of the coming Messiah. He states: The dreams of the new Kingdom included the religious centrality of Jerusalem, the political [...]