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  • noun One who studies missiology.

Etymologies

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missiology +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • According to studies by Robert J. Priest, a missiologist and director of the doctoral program in intercultural studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 82% of short-term missions today go to countries in the most-Christian third of the world.

    How Missionaries Lost Their Chariots of Fire 2010

  • Dr. Awasu uses Biblical references and honest conversations between characters to develop the message that he hopes to share through Kim's Confessions, using his background as a renowned missiologist, researcher of spiritism and spiritual formations, and a missionary training consultant

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • Dr. Awasu uses Biblical references and honest conversations between characters to develop the message that he hopes to share through Kim's Confessions, using his background as a renowned missiologist, researcher of spiritism and spiritual formations, and a missionary training consultant

    Theologist and Missiologist Joins Podcast This Week 2010

  • During the late 1990's, Thomas Muthee served on the board of The World Prayer Center, which was housed in a building adjacent to Ted Haggard's New Life Church, built on church property and developed as a joint project between Haggard and missiologist C. Peter Wagner who, as Haggard writes in his book "The Life Giving Church", Haggard was instructed in the early 1990's to materially support.

    Bruce Wilson: John Ensign Linked To "Do-it-Yourself Exorcism" Movement 2009

  • The late Anglican theologian and missiologist Leslie Newbigin talked about the idea of "plausibility structures" of knowledge.

    TEXAS FAITH: Why should science talk to religion? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Whatever you do, don't focus so much on contextualizing as a missiologist to the point that you lose sight of how the gospel contextualizes to you.

    TheResurgence 2010

  • Lesslie Newbigin, the famed theologian and missiologist, stated it this way, "The transmission of traditional wisdom in families from the old to the young is replaced by systems of education organized by the State and designed to shape young minds toward the future that is being planned."

    Crosswalk.com - Home 2010

  • Well-known contemporary author and missiologist Andrew Walls has said of the events at Edinburgh in 1910:

    John H Armstrong 2010

  • To paraphrase Mennonite missiologist James Krabill, our mission will smell like God's mission.

    Missional Church Network 2009

  • Guder is one of the most important missiologist in the church today.

    Sets 'n' Service 2009

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