Course resources
- Course syllabus [ "What is a syllabus?" ]
- Historic missionary slogans from Hudson Taylor and others [ read slogans ]
- Conversion of the Barbarians, 400-800 A.D.
- Conversion of the Vikings, 800-1200 A.D.
- Early Roman Catholic missions to the nations, 1200-1600 A.D.
- Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant missions, 1600 to the present
- Crossword puzzle on missions history (Perspectives)
- Crossword puzzle for exam 3
- PowerPoint: Epochs of missionary expansion [ view on-line ] [ download as PowerPoint ]
- Exam study guides [ go to exam guides ]
I like Ralph Winter's easy-to-remember, over-simplified 400-year eras of global evangelism. Here's how he breaks down the history of Christian missions over the last 2000 years:
- 0-400 AD Winning the Romans: Evangelizing the empire of the Caesars
- 400-800 AD Evangelization of the Barbarians [ read more ]
- 800-1200 AD Evangelization of the Vikings [ read more ]
- 1200-1600 AD Evangelization of the Saracens / Muslims
- 1600-2000 AD Evangelization of the Ends of the Earth [ read more ]
Researcher David Barrett has also divided that same period into five eras. Approaching it from a statistical point of view, his epochs of mission history are a little different:
- 30-500 AD The Apostolic Era (Luke and Paul)
- 500-1750 AD The Ecclesiastical Era (Cosmas Indicopleustes and Francis Xavier) [ read more ]
- 1750-1900 AD The Church Growth era
- William Carey, the "father of modern missions" [ more info ]
- Henry Venn -- "self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating churches"
- 1900-1990 AD The Global Mission era (John R. Mott and Kenneth Grubb)
- 1990- present The Global Discipling era
from "Five Statistical Eras of Global Mission" by David Barrett, published in Missiology, January 1984
Video viewing guides
- Amy Carmichael and the Dohnavur Fellowship
- Beyond the next mountain -- the story of Rochunga Pudaite
- Candle in the dark -- the story of William Carey
- David Livingstone: Journey to the heart of Africa
- Hudson Taylor -- pioneer missionary to China
- Mama Luka comes home -- the story of Helen Roseveare
- Through Gates of Splendor -- the story of five missionaries killed in Ecuador by the Auca Indians
- When Things Seem Impossible -- Four missionaries are taken hostage along with a small airplane
Sample assignments
Links to missions resources on the Internet
| Writing Standards | Most courses at SNU contain a writing component. I expect students to produce written work that is focused, well developed, organized and relatively free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. Papers falling short of this standard will not be graded. That work will be returned to the students for further revision and resubmission. See my writing checklist. |
 | There's been some great films made of missions heroes and great moments in missions history. [ read more ] |
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