Mission Studies in Britain and Ireland: Internationalizing Theology

Abstract

Abstract Mission studies in Britain and Ireland has changed significantly as a result of both global and domestic changes since 2000. This article, which updates an earlier one published in 2000 in the British Journal of Theological Education, analyses the changing nature, the changing location of mission in the academy, and the changing content of mission studies. In light of its findings and of the nature of mission studies as an internationalizing, boundary-crossing force in theology, the article also ends by asking whether and to what the extent mission studies impacts the teaching and study of theology in general in Britain and Ireland.