Missiology: An Introduction to the Foundations, History, and Strategies of World Missions

by John Mark Terry

Publisher:

B&H

, 2015

Overview

Thoroughly updated and revised, Missiology equips the reader with a vast resource on contemporary missions. This graduate-level introduction is divided into five sections (Introduction to the Study of Missiology, Biblical Basis of Missions, Theology of Missions, and Applied Missiology) and offers essays on modern missions issues and methods such as contextualization, spiritual warfare, and orality, as well as chapters on major world religions and cults in North America.

A retired missionary and long-time professor of missions, editor John Mark Terry enlists a wide range of evangelical authors, most with significant experience in international or North American missions. Pastors will find helpful information on church planting in North America and on developing a missions-minded church. Students will benefit from the chapters on understanding the call to missions and the current status of world evangelization. All readers will profit from a valuable one-volume reference work on missions.

Product Details

• Title: Missiology: An Introduction to the Foundations, History, and Strategies of World Missions
• Author: John Mark Terry
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 662
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Textbooks; Missions
• ISBNs: 9781430080862, 9781433681516, 143368151X, 1430080868
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_15B4A5EA82B84F609FE39E9992B99ED6
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-08T22:55:23Z

About John Mark Terry

John Mark Terry (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is department chair and professor of missions at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee. He has taught at Malaysia Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Clear Creek Baptist Bible College, and the Southern Philippines Baptist Seminary.