I periodically supervise seminarians in theses or dissertations. Usually, their papers are in missions (although sometimes I oversee other types of papers). A couple of the papers I oversaw in missions pushed the limits of what is considered to be missiological at our seminary. One had to do with process of contextualization of preaching for …
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Missions Research and Practice, the Great Divide…
WARNING!! A technical story to follow... feel free to skip the blue section if you wish. Many years ago, I was a mechanical engineering student. My expertise was in material science, particularly as it pertained to material response to stress. I did my master's thesis in the creep rupture response of pultruded glass-reinforced polymer-matrix composites …
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Ethnographic Research #1
In Missions Research, one can divide research into three broad categories: Literary Research, Quantitative Research, and Qualitative Research. Yes, these could be argued about and they do overlap, but let's go with it for now. Qualitative Research involves development of new sources and data (unlike literary research) and deals with statements and concepts rather than …