The development of adventist missiology

There have been several developments in Seventh-day Adventist missiology. This chapter engages Adventist mission from a perspective of continuity, change, and rupture. From a shut-door mission mindset, the Adventist denomination shifted its mission thinking to a worldwide cross-cultural mission engagement. This progression touches aspects and elements of mission theological themes such as eschatology and ecclesiology. In mission praxis, strategic and practical changes have pushed Adventist missiological thinking to adjusting to new difficulties and openings in today's world. It is in charting these developments that the chapter shows how a close-minded group that emerged in 1844 became a global missionary phenomenon. The trajectory outlined in this chapter reveals that Adventism's aim to become a church for all nations, tribes, tongues, and peoples is more vocalized and realized in its mission praxis.