Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

PART I. The Tributaries of Missiology --

1. Missiology like a river --

2. Connecting theology to cross-cultural discipleship --

3. Connectin history to to cross-cultural discipleship --

4. Connecting anthropology to cross-cultural discipleship --

5. Connecting intercultural studies to cross-cultural discipleship --

6. Connecting development theory to cross-cultural discipleship / Julie Martinez with Kenneth Nehrbass --

7. Connecting education to cross-cultural discipleship / Rebeca Burnett and Leanne Dzubinski --

PART II. The Distributaries of Missiology --

8. Defining cross-cultural discipleship --

9. Seminal theories of cross-cultural discipleship --

10. Seminal models for cross-cultural discipleship --

11. The future of missiology.

Advanced Missiology draws the connections between the theory and practice of missions. Using the metaphor of a river, the book shows how theories "upstream" such as theology, education, anthropology, community development, and history have exerted an influence on missiology (and missiology, in turn, has gone back upstream to influence those disciplines). What causes these disciplines to converge in missiology is the goal of making disciples across cultures. Whereas missiologists are not always explicit about how their abstract theories actually relate to the task of making disciples across cultures, each chapter in advanced Missiology shows how numerous theories, sub-fields, models, and strategies of missiology ultimately facilitate the great Commission. The book argues htat by using interdisciplinarity for this fundamental purpose, missiological studies will be more credible and useful.