Missiology as a Discipline and What it Includes

Abstract

This presentation given at the 1987 A PM Annual Meeting seeks to answer the question of “what missiology is” and “what it includes.” It reflects on the various ways and interdisciplinary perspectives from which missiology can be taught, and supports the notion that missiology in America today must be integrative and complementary, while at the same time defining its own essential norms. The study is not able to come up with a fully agreed definition of what missiology is, due to flux and pluralism.