Missiological Imagination as a Pedagogical Tool African and Asian Christians in Conversation

This article provides an example of how mission history may be utilized in imaginative ways to promote student rejection about missiology. The article first presents biographical portraits of three Christian leaders from Africa and Asia in the late eighteenth century with respect to three missiological themes (migration, empire, and theology of evangelism). The second section of the essay is a fictitious and imaginative conversation among these three historical characters and me, the author; where questions are posed concerning these same themes, The article concludes with pedagogical rejections on the use of a similar exercise with students.