MISSIOLOGY AS A DISCIPLINE: A BIEF INTRODUCTION

Abstract

In humor, John Terry calls missiology: "a horrid hybrid word…a clumsy construct…a linguistic monstrosity."  With more seriousness he defines missiology as “what happens when the mission of God comes into holy collision with the nature of man" (Terry, 1 and 2). Missiology derives from missio, Latin for “sending” as in missio Dei and logos, Greek for ‘word,” used of Scripture and Christ, both with a sense of being living, vital and active.