Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Greatest Commission Outlines of John 20:19-23 and of This Book Matters of Interpretation Defiant Optimism The State of the Western Church 2. Breaking Free Through Discerning Inculturation Inculturation Without Enculturation Cultural Disconnection of Western Churches and Breaking Free 3. Breaking Free of the Entrapment of Indiscriminate Enculturation Indiscriminate Enculturation of the Western Churches Despair Leading to Isolation Despair Within Even the Radical Emergent The Despair Undergirding Radical Orthodoxy Hope in the Christocentric, Trinitarian Church 4. Greatest Co-Mission: The Missional Trinity What Does It Mean to Be Trinitarian? The Trinity and the Power of Relationality The Trinity and the Dignity of Personhood The Trinity and Coinherence The Immanent and the Economic Trinities (Two Trinities or One?) The Trinity and Creation The Trinity and Election The Trinity and the Church: Unity with Diversity PART ONE : DISCOVERING SHALOM 5. Communities of Christ's Risen Presence Church as Christocentric Community Church as Celebratory Community Church as a Community of Shalom Church as a Missional, Open Community: A Community of Hospitality Church as Essential Community Church as the One Catholic Community Church as Community That Is Both Lively and Old Church as a Missional Community Church as a Catechetical Community 6. Mission of Incarnation and Resurrection The Incarnation-Resurrection Dynamic Reaffirms God's Creation and Confirms the Church's Mission as a Creational Mission The Incarnation-Resurrection Dynamic Affirms That Christian Mission Is a New Creational Mission 7. Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Beautiful Scars Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Joy Generated by Beautiful Scars Communities of Christ's Crucified Presence: Through Christocentric, Cruciform Worship,Teaching and Community Life 8.

Mission About the Cross, Mission Under the Cross: His Completed Redemption Mission About the Cross Mission Under the Cross PART TWO: DISSEMINATING SHALOM 9. Communities of the Triune Missional God: Mission the Mother of Theology, Theology the Mother of Mission Biblical Evidence of God as Missional Theological Considerations of God as Missional The Nature of the Missional Church 10. Mission as Theosis Participation in the Son's Sentness by the Spirit Participation in the Son's Sentness by the Spirit Implications of Incarnational and Pneumatic Theosis for the Church's Mission 11. Communities of the Spirit: Gathered and Scattered The Spirit in the Missional Church Gathered The Spirit in Missional Church Moral Formation The Spirit in the Missional Church Scattered 12. Communities of Forgiveness: Mission of Absolution and Freedom Remission at the Heart of the Gospel Remission Expressed in Participation with Christ by the Spirit Remission as an Initial and Permanent Saving Act and as an Ongoing Relational Practice Remission and Reconciliation as a Sign of the Kingdom Bibliography Name and Subject Index Scripture Index.