Archives

• October - Recessions and Declines: Noteworthy Decreases of Christianity and Its Influence

  Vol. 21 No. 4 (2024)

• July - Awakenings, Advances, and Revivals: Noteworthy Outpourings of God’s Spirit

  Vol. 21 No. 3 (2024)

• April

  Vol. 21 No. 2 (2024)

• January

  Vol. 21 No. 1 (2024)

• October - Christian Persecution and Suffering

  Vol. 20 No. 4 (2023)

  This issue of Global Missiology - English takes up a theme of increasing importance and worldwide relevance, “Christian Persecution and Suffering.”

• July

  Vol. 20 No. 3 (2023)

• April - Theological Education and Mission

  Vol. 20 No. 2 (2023)

  This special issue of Global Missiology - English takes up the multifaceted theme of “Theological Education and Mission.” GME issued a call for papers one year ago, resulting in the five featured articles carried here.

• January - Enthusiasm, Innovation, and Faithfulness

  Vol. 20 No. 1 (2023)

  Mission practitioners are typically characterized by their willingness to serve sacrificially as need be. Mission methods that practitioners employ vary by tradition, conviction, and circumstances. There are often striking contrasts between values of innovation and of faithfulness that practitioners manifest in their service. While addressing a wide range of other topics as well, this issue's articles speak to the varying ways that Christian mission practitioners exhibit enthusiasm, innovation, and faithfulness.

• October - Pentecostal / Spirit-Empowered Mission

  Vol. 19 No. 4 (2022)

  This issue takes up a theme of increasing importance and worldwide relevance, “Pentecostal / Spirit-Empowered Mission.”

• July - Missiological Iron Sharpening

  Vol. 19 No. 3 (2022)

  This issue's contributions offer challenges to think, study, serve, and equip others carefully about approaches to Christian missions—to sharpen each other, just as "iron sharpens iron" (Proverbs 27:17).

• April - The Kaleidoscope of Ecclesiology and Missiology

  Vol. 19 No. 2 (2022)

  This April issue's contributions continue some of the church-movement themes that emerged from the January issue's theme on Kingdom Movements. Additional topics are taken up as well, including education in oral contexts and Afghanistan's Hazara people.

• January - Kingdom Movements

  Vol. 19 No. 1 (2022)

• October - What Is New and What Is Old

  Vol. 18 No. 4 (2021)

• July

  Vol. 18 No. 3 (2021)

• April - Digital Media and Missions

  Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021)

• January - Missiology as Leaven

  Vol. 18 No. 1 (2021)

  This issue explores a wide array of topics, just as leaven penetrates every part of dough into which it is placed. (Scroll down to access and download a whole issue pdf.)

• October - Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis

  Vol. 5 No. 17 (2020)

  This issue resulted from the specially selected theme of "Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis" and a call for papers one year ago.

• July - The Ongoing Challenges of Contexts

  Vol. 4 No. 17 (2020)

  The articles in this July issue of Global Missiology - English explore one or more aspects of understanding, practicing, and communicating the gospel in relevant and biblically faithful ways. The articles take up the ongoing challenges of contexts that Jesus’s followers face every day.

• April - The Next Generation and Missions

  Vol. 3 No. 17 (2020)

• January - Still "Amazed and Perplexed"

  Vol. 2 No. 17 (2020)

• October - "Amazed and Perplexed"

  Vol. 1 No. 17 (2019)

• July - Transforming Analytical Paradigms

  Vol. 4 No. 16 (2019)

  Just as David Bosch explained almost three decades ago how paradigms of Christian mission have been transformed throughout biblical and Christian history, so too in today's ongoing transition of Christian mission are paradigms of analyzing mission being transformed. Whether looking at mission historically, sociologically, theologically, prescriptively, or otherwise, this issues' articles exemplify how analytical paradigms are undergoing transformation in the midst of Christian mission's transitioning landscape.

• April - Missiological Paradigms Still in Transition

  Vol. 3 No. 16 (2019)

• January - Etic Analyses

  Vol. 2 No. 16 (2019)

  Missiology must utilize both cultural insiders' emic viewpoints and outsiders' etic insights. This issue contains four etic analyses of a panoply of topics focused on four different intercultural subjects.

• October - Fresh Currents in Worldwide Gospel Ministry

  Vol. 1 No. 16 (2018)

  Christianity's worldwide spread has brought forth fresh wellsprings of gospel ministry. This issue highlights a plethora of Asian Christian leaders, both young and old as well as dispersed across much of Asia. The methodological background of seeing honor-shame contexts on their own terms is also analyzed. Moreover, lessons tied to an important southern African ministry are unpacked, continuing from the previous issue.