Russian Baptist Mission Theology in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Andrey Kravtsev

• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781783687473
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783687480
• Topic: Théologie et religion
• Subtopic: Histoire de la Russie

Since the disintegration of the USSR many Russian Baptists have actively engaged in evangelism, church planting, and acts of social service. This book is a response to the need to critically evaluate the effectiveness of past mission efforts and their undergirding theology.In this detailed study, Dr Andrey Kravtsev combines historical and qualitative studies to outline the understanding of mission developed by Russian Baptists during the Soviet era when they were almost completely isolated from global missiological developments. First, Kravtsev identifies four key missiological concepts and uses them to analyze the history of mission theology in global evangelical mission movements and the Russian Baptists. He then interviewed thirty leaders from the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists to find their view of these concepts, and their convictions of the need to reconsider traditional missiological views. From his findings, Dr Kravtsev suggests five themes for facilitating the transition of Russian Baptist mission theology from the late-Soviet model of eschatological escapism, to a holistic, missional evangelicalism. This book places evangelical mission in contemporary Russian socio-political and ideological contexts and provides an important contribution for leading churches to a renewed missionary encounter with culture.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Development of Evangelical Mission Theology Since 1910
• Chapter 3 Russian Baptist Mission Theology in Context, 1867–1991
• Chapter 4 Conceptual Framework and Methodology
• Chapter 5 Research Findings, Part I: The Participants’ Views on the Theology of Mission
• Chapter 6 Research Findings, Part II: The Need for Revisions to Traditional Missiological Views and Ways of Introducing Them
• Chapter 7 Conclusions and Implications
• Appendix 1 Informed Consent Form
• Appendix 2 Interview Protocol
• Appendix 3 Participants’ Demographic Information
• Appendix 4 A Missional Model of Theological Education
• Bibliography
• About Langham Partnership
• Endnotes