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missiology|mɪsɪˈɒlədʒɪ| [f. mission n. + -ology.] The study of the methods, purpose, etc., of religious missions.
1937Tablet 23 Oct. 545/1 (heading) The science of missiology. First principles of mission work. Ibid., Missiology is a new word for a new science. 1961A. V. Seumois in G. H. Anderson Theol. Christian Mission ii. 133 Practical missiology, scientifically theological, covers the study of mission spirituality and mission methodology. 1971Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 May 30/5 (Advt.), Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History and Missiology. 1975Church Times 11 July 2/5 Miss Myrtle Langley is to be head of the new department of missiology..at Trinity College, Bristol. So missioˈlogical a., of or pertaining to missiology; missiˈologist, one who concerns himself with missiology.
1951Theology LIV. 349 The aim of missions..is.., as a distinguished Roman Missiologist has said, to ‘found’ the Church’. 1957Scottish Jrnl. Theol. X. 300 One meets here the biblical theologian, the scientist in religions, the missionary and ‘missiologist’. 1961A. V. Seumois in G. H. Anderson Theol. Christian Mission ii. 123 The writing which marked the launching of the modern missiological movement. 1970J. Power Mission Theol. Today p. ix, There is a lacuna that so far has not been filled either by missionaries themselves or by missiologists. 1971N. Q. King Christian & Muslim in Afr. 90 Leaving aside such theological and missiological considerations, a large number of African Christians ask us to compare some of the Christians of the older generation. |