A Survey of World Missions

by Robin Hadaway

Publisher:

B&H Academic

, 2020

Overview

Reflecting thorough scholarship and decades of ministry experience, Robin Hadaway’s A Survey of World Missions examines the biblical, theological, and historical foundations of missions, as well as issues of culture and worldview, contextualization, philosophy, and mission strategy. The book is designed to assist pastors, students, missionaries, and theologians in developing sound theory and praxis for both the international and North American mission field. Through his use of field illustrations and key questions, Hadaway achieves a conversational tone, making this textbook ideal for use in both academic and lay settings.

Key Features

• Explores the issues involved in fomulating sound mission theology and practice
• Seeks to share knowledge about missions and explore the subject for the benefit of students, laypeople, church workers and the Christian community
• Attempts to be useful as a textbook to assist the Christian community in understanding and practicing international and home missions

Contents

• Introduction
• The Biblical Basis of Missions
• The Theological Foundation of Missions
• The Historical Foundation of Missions
• World Religions
• Culture and Worldview
• Contextualization
• Philosophy of Missions
• Missions Strategy and Methods
• The Missionary
• Conclusion: The Future of Twenty-First Century Missions
• Appendix A: Baptism
• Appendix B: Ecclesiology

Top Highlights

“The third term, ‘methods,’ portrays the detailed tactics that accomplish the strategy plans.” (Page 193)

“I define Christian contextualization as the correct application of biblical truth using insights from a society’s culture and worldview in order to communicate the unchanging gospel to a constantly changing world.” (Page 159)

“The redemption price in this case consists of a propitiatory payment of the highest value—the very blood of the Son of God.” (Page 39)

“First, a philosophy of missions describes the perspective through which one views the missionary task” (Page 192)

“Justice Anderson, ‘The word missiology, therefore, connotes what happens when the mission of God comes into holy collision with the nature of man. It describes the dynamic result of a fusion of God’s mission with man’s nature. It is what occurs when redeemed mankind becomes the agent of God’s mission. . . . missiology, etymologically speaking, is the study of this redemptive relationship.’⁹ This book explores the subject.” (Pages 2–3)

Praise for A Survey of World Missions

This book by my friend Robin Hadaway is a sound and solid study of missions from a biblical, theological and historical perspective. It is also practical and relevant to the twenty-first century context. It will serve well as a college or seminary textbook for years to come.

Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

The mission history of the church is on display in A Survey of World Missions. For more than 2,000 years, Christ-followers in local churches have been on-mission to fulfill the Great Commission. Each generation doing what they can for the cause of Christ, each generation getting closer than ever before to finishing the task. Innovative leaders continue to study history to build on the lessons of the past and avoid repeating its failures. Robin Hadaway has turned in an opus on the history of missions backed by a lifetime of experience and generations of perspective. He reviews where the church has been to help us discern what leaders can do next. The perspective found in this book will help any church leader understand the true health of the local church is measured by its sending capacity not its seating capacity!

Rick Warren, founding & lead pastor, Saddleback Church

No matter should concern the Christian more than accomplishing the very mission for which Christ called his church into existence. Thus, understanding that mission is crucial. Drawing from a lifetime of Great Com­­mission passion, missionary experience, and scho­larship, Robin Hadaway has produced what I predict will become the standard textbook for introducing the study of missions. In A Survey of World Missions, Hadaway covers all the bases in providing an accessible and succinct overview of missions history, phil­os­o­­­phy, and strategy. Most importantly, Hadaway captures the essence and simplicity of mis­­sions, exem­pli­­fied in his closing words: ‘we are to be his witnesses throughout the world, in the power of the Holy Spir­it proclaiming the gospel of Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection and making those who believe into his disciples. This is missions.’

Paul Chitwood, president, International Mission Board

Product Details

• Title: A Survey of World Missions
• Author: Robin Hadaway
• Publisher: B&H Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Missions
• ISBNs: 9781462770441, 9781462770434, 1462770444, 1462770436
• Resource ID: LLS:9781462770441
• Resource Type: text.monograph.survey
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-10T08:04:49Z

About Robin Hadaway

Hadaway was a missionary for the International Mission Board for 18 years. He was an IMB missionary church planter in Sudan and a missionary evangelist in Tanzania. Most recently, he was the IMB Regional Leader for Eastern South America, supervising 300 missionaries in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. He also has been a pastor in California and Arizona and a captain in the Air Force. He has a D.Min. from Golden Gate Seminary and an M.Div. from Southwestern Seminary. Dr. Hadaway graduated with a B.A. from Memphis State University and is a native of Tallahassee, Florida.