Reformed Missions: Voetius, the Scottish Missionary Movement and the Great Commission
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Reformed missiology from Voetius, the first Reformed theologian to give a full account of missions, through the Scottish missionary movement of Duff and Paton, to confessional church planting today. Missionary biographies are read as history; the doctrine comes from the confessions and their teachers.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Reformed Missions and Evangelism (Christ the Center) Eric Watkins 42 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Harvest OPC, San Marcos, California; director of the Center for Missions and Evangelism, Mid-America Reformed Seminary American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
- Reformed Evangelism (Christ the Center) Paul Murphy and Eric Watkins 73 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (URCNA), New York; Mid-America Reformed Seminary American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
- Theological Education in Foreign Missions (Christ the Center) Douglas Clawson, Charles Jackson and a missionary named 'Mike' on the page 70 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Committee on Foreign Missions (Clawson: associate general secretary; Jackson: missionary in Uganda) Affiliation could not be confirmed this session (the WebSearch budget was exhausted and the institutional pages probed did not state it). Kept only in history or supplementary roles; confirm before any doctrinal use.
- Engaging Missions through the Life of John G. Paton (Christ the Center) Chad Vegas 80 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source History Sovereign Grace Church, Bakersfield, California (founding pastor since 2006) and Radius International (founding board member), per the Radius International... Founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Bakersfield (confirmed on the Radius International page); not a subscriber to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms (a Reformed Baptist congregation, from general knowledge). History role only, affiliation shown on the page; the unit rests on Paton's autobiography...
Total: 4.4 hours