Missiology

The Mission of God and God’s Church

David K. Ngaruiya, Elizabeth W. Mburu, Nathan H. Chiroma

• Publisher: Langham Global Library
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786413079
• Print ISBN:
  9781786412140
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

The essence of the church's character lies in God's mission. It is the foundational call for God's people in every generation and the core of God's divine purpose for the church. In this tenth volume from the annual conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, contributors explore God's mission and the church's participation, reflecting on how missiology relates to other theological fields while also being rooted in reality to ultimately encourage the church's interaction with the world in a way that reflects God's missionary heart. This collection of papers investigates the important connection between missiology and hermeneutics, going on to examine how missional frameworks shape theological ideas and provide insights into how the church can practically represent God's mission in a broken world. Presenting missiology through the lenses of scriptural examinations, historical theology, systematic examinations, and practical theology, these essays work together to build a contemporary understanding of how we can put theory into practice as we consider God's mission and the African church's place in it.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Africa Society of Evangelical Theology Series
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Can the African Church Be Missional? Challenges and Prospects
• Chapter 2: Mission and Migration
• Chapter 3: Exploring Missiological Prospect in a Postmodern Era From an African Perspective
• Chapter 4: Engaging Aurality and Orality for Effective Contextualization for Missions in Contemporary Africa
• Chapter 5: Modelling Paul as a Bicultural/Hybrid Missionary
• Chapter 6: Funding Mission From Africa
• Chapter 7: Did Western Missionaries Really Destroy Africa?
• Chapter 8: Christianity and the Origins of Anthropological Poverty in Africa
• Chapter 9: Revisiting Luke 1:57–66 Through a Disability Lens for Inclusive Mission Within the Nigerian Churches
• Chapter 10: Who Are the Lost Sheep, and What Is Our Mission?
• Chapter 11: Community Transformation Through the African Church in Light of the Christ Hymn of Philippians 2
• Chapter 12: Participation of Children in the Mission of God
• Chapter 13: Persecution, Perseverance and the Mission of the Church in the Epistle to the Hebrews
• Chapter 14: Spiritual Warfare in Contemporary African Christianity From a Biblical Perspective
• Contributors
• About Langham Partnership
• Index
• Endnotes