Today the language of mission is in disarray. Where do the language and idea of 'mission' come from? Do they truly have precedence in the early centuries of the church? Michael Stroope investigates these questions and shows how the language of mission is a modern phenomenon that shaped a 'grand narrative' of mission. He then offers a way forward.
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the enigma of mission
Part 1: Justifying mission
Partisans and apologists
Reading Scripture as mission
Presenting history as mission
Rhetoric and trope
Part 2: Innovating mission
5. Holy conquest
6. Latin occupation
7. Mission vow
8. Ignatian mission
Part 3: Revising mission
9. Protestant reception
10. Missionary problems