Contextualizing Missionary and National Identity: A Study of Czech Protestant Missionary Identity Among Slavs in the Western Balkans

Missionaries are called to cross boundaries for the sake of the gospel, adapting to new contexts and becoming “all things to all people.” In such a role, how are missionaries to negotiate their own national identities? Do they simply suppress them or can such identities, rightly understood, be harnessed for the glory of Christ?

In this study of the national facet of missionary identity, Dr. David Symon examines the specific example of Protestant Czech missionaries serving in the countries of...