Frontier Mission: A History
Free Complete Audiobook of "The Dynamics of Christian Mission" by Paul E. Pierson.
Listen to first five chapters here, and hear chapters 6-35 for free on Spotify. This is an audiobook of “The Dynamics of Christian Mission: History Through a Missiological Perspective”
Book by Paul Everett Pierson. Produced with permission.
How did the good news of King Jesus find its away into so many peoples around the world? What did it take, and who did God call to bring it about? Listen in as Paul E. Pierson surveys the dynamics of Christian Mission from 30AD to the present.
Early Expansion
1: Introduction 9
2: Biblical Background: Expansion in the Apostolic Period 19
3: The Two Structures of the Church 29
4: The Early Church: Apostolic and Post-Apostolic 41
5: Expansion in the Roman World 51
6: Early Monasticism 61
7: The Celtic Church 69
Change and Attempts at Renewal
8: The Barbarian World 79
9: Major Defeats: Islam and the Viking Invasions 89
10: Monastic Renewal and the Crusades 97
11: Medieval Lay Movements 107
12: The Friars: Mission Accepted 117
The Reformation Era
13: Preparation for Reformation 129
14: Luther, Calvin, and the Reformation 135
15: The “Radical” Reformation: The Anabaptists 151
16: The Catholic Reformation and Mission 161
Renewal and the Beginnings of Protestant Mission
17: Puritanism and Pietism 177
18: Moravians, Methodists, and Mission 187
19: William Carey and the Emergence of Protestant Mission Structures 199
20: The Beginning of Mission in America 207
21: The American Frontier: New Patterns of Leadership 219
22: The Dynamics of Renewal Movements 229
The “Great Centuries”
23: The Second Burst of New Mission Structures 241
24: Women in Mission 251
25: Edinburgh 1910 and the Ecumenical Movement 261
26: Survey of Modern Missions: Asia 269
27: Survey of Modern Missions: Oceania, the Middle East, and North Africa 281
28: Survey of Modern Missions: Africa 289
29: Survey of Modern Missions: Latin America 295
30: Pentecostalism and Mission 303
The New Era
31: Our Changing Era in Mission 315
32: New Personnel in Mission 321
33: New Places and Patterns in Mission 329
34: The New Churches 335
35: Issues for the Future: Urbanization and the Poor 343