Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity
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Missiology is the study of mission-doers, the persons who are active in Christianisation, with methodological attention to the dialectic of personhood. Mission, in this approach, is what a mission-doer thinks it is. Mission-doers are potential facilitators as well as potential hinderers of the cause of Jesus Christ. They emerge in particular contexts; as the contexts change they converge and diverge. New contexts for Christianisation may require new ways of doing it, which in turn may require new people to carry them out. That is why individual and corporate mission-doers emerge, are renewed and eventually fade away. The understanding of missiology is illustrated with reference to the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar under the impact of the Gorbachev transition (1985-93).