Preface to the English Edition (2017) Preface to the German Edition (2013) 1. To Set the Tone: Mission--Surprisingly Different 2. Developments to Date: An Introductory Overview Part I: Developments in Mission Theology in the Twentieth/Twenty-First Centuries 3. On the Beginnings of Mission Studies: Gustav Warneck 4. Salvation-Historical Theology of Mission: Karl Hartenstein and Walter Freytag 5. From Edinburgh to Achimota: The World Missionary Conferences from 1910 to 1958 6. A History-of-the-Promise Theology of Mission: Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk 7. From New Delhi to Uppsala: Churches, Missions, and Decolonization (1961-1968) 8.
Ecumenists and Evangelicals: The Controversies of the 1970s (1968-1979) 9. From Melbourne to Salvador de Bahia: Poverty, the Fall of the Wall, and Globalization (1980-1996) 10. From Athens to Busan: The Challenges of the Early Twenty-First Century (2005-2013) Part II: Theologies of Mission in the Plural: Confessional and Contextual Profiles 11. Roman Catholic Mission Theology Before and After Vatican II 12. Orthodox Mission Theology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: An Overview 13. North American Protestantism: God's Chosen Nation? 14. The Anglican Church: Mission-Shaped Church 15. Mission Theological Profiles in Pentecostal Churches and Movements 16.
Missionary Initiatives and Challenges Part III: Continents, Context, Controversies 17. Mission and the Kingdom of God: From Liberation to Martyrdom? 18. Mission and Money: Is God the Friend of the Poor or of the Rich? 19. Mission and "Power": Healing and Deliverance? 20. Mission and Dialogue: Love Affair or War of the Roses? 21. Mission and Gender: The Sexes and Interculturality? 22. Mission and Conversion: A Change of Religion, or Transformation? Part IV: Mission as Oikoumenical Doxology: A New Theological Approach 23. The Source of Strength for Christian Mission, and the Forms It Takes 24.
The Doxological Dimension: Mission as the Glorification of God 25. The Oikoumenical Dimension: Mission Across the Ecumenical Spectrum Bibliography Name Index Subject index Scripture Index.