| In appreciation | viii | |
| Foreword | ix | |
| Part 1 | Setting the stage | 1 |
| 1. | From Iguassu to the reflective practitioners of the global family of Christ | 3 |
| 2. | The Iguassu Affirmation | 15 |
| Part 2 | Establishing the macro context of the major issues | 23 |
| 3. | The global scenario at the turn of the century | 25 |
| 4. | Engaging Escobar ... and beyond | 47 |
| 5. | Globalization and world evangelism | 57 |
| 6. | Christ and the mosaic of pluralisms | 71 |
| 7. | Evangelical missiology: peering into the future at the turn of the century | 101 |
| 8. | Learning from Escobar ... and beyond | 123 |
| 9. | A Two-Thirds World evaluation of contemporary Evangelical missiology | 133 |
| 10. | The Scriptures, the church, and humanity: who should do mission and why? | 149 |
| 11. | Spiritual warfare and worldview | 163 |
| 12. | Rethinking trinitarian missiology | 179 |
| Part 3 | Grounding our reflections in Scripture: biblical trinitarianism and mission | 189 |
| 13. | God: the source, the originator, and the end of mission | 191 |
| 14. | Jesus: the message and model of mission | 207 |
| 15. | The Holy Spirit: the divine implementer of mission | 223 |
| 16. | The church: the mirror of the Trinity | 239 |
| Part 4 | Addressing issues of globalized Evangelical missiology | 257 |
| 17. | Profiling a globalized and Evangelical missiology | 259 |
| 18. | Evangelical missiology from Africa: strengths and weaknesses | 271 |
| 19. | Missiological challenges from the South Pacific region | 285 |
| 20. | Evangelical missiology from an East Asian perspective: a study on Christian encounter with people of other faiths | 295 |
| 21. | Evangelical missiology from India | 307 |
| 22. | Ancient springs and sweet fruit: missiological contributions from the Middle East | 333 |
| 23. | Further contributions to missiology from an Arab perspective | 347 |
| 24. | Mission and missiology from Latin America | 357 |
| 25. | Younger generations and the gospel in Western culture | 367 |
| 26. | Telling stories: contextualization and American missiology | 377 |
| Part 5 | Responding to the challenges | 389 |
| 27. | The Indian church and missions face the saffronization challenge | 391 |
| 28. | The Hindu missionary movements and Christian missions in India | 407 |
| 29. | The complex spiritual mosaic of East Asia | 421 |
| 30. | A vision from the world beyond: Islam | 439 |
| 31. | Dry bones in the West | 447 |
| 32. | Let X = X: Generation X and world mission | 463 |
| 33. | From synthesis to synergy: the Iguassu think tanks | 477 |
| Part 6 | Listening to mission that rises from community and spirituality | 489 |
| 34. | Celtic community, spirituality, and mission | 491 |
| 35. | Nestorian community, spirituality, and mission | 495 |
| 36. | Moravian community, spirituality, and mission | 503 |
| 37. | Jesuit community, spirituality, and mission | 507 |
| 38. | Coptic community, spirituality, and mission | 511 |
| 39. | Brazilian Antioch community, spirituality, and mission | 515 |
| Part 7 | Accepting serious commitments | 519 |
| 40. | The Iguassu Affirmation: a commentary by eight reflective practitioners | 521 |
| 41. | Drawing to a close: inviting reflective, passionate, and globalized practitioners | 549 |
| Index | 557 |
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