Intercultural Theology, Volume Two

Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural phenomenon. In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Mission theologies, he argues, are found in a wide range of implicit as well as explicit forms, from the practice of Christian presence by a Pakistani Christian among a marginalized people to the published deliberations of mission scholars in the West. The task of intercultural theology is to investigate and promote awareness of the variety of culture- and context-specific theologies of mission. From Warneck to Bosch, from Edinburgh to Lausanne to Busan, Wrogemann provides an overview of the theological underpinnings, rationalizations, and visions for mission and its practice. Tracing developments across a range of Christian traditions, movements, themes, and regions of the globe, from Europe and North America to sub-Saharan Africa, Wrogemann presents us with an array of mission theologies across the scope of the modern missionary movement. This rich conspectus is rounded out with the doxological dimension of mission and the varied facets of oikoumenism. Masterful in its scope and detail, this volumewill richly inform the study of missiology and global Christianity. And it is essential reading for doing theology in a multicultural key. In a day when the church in the West struggles to understand and appreciate its missionary legacy and calling,Wrogemann's work sparkles with its deeply informed insights and inspiring vision. Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.

Henning Wrogemann (DTheol, DHabil, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg) is a world-renowned missiologist and scholar of religion. He holds the chair for mission studies, comparative religion, and ecumenics at the Protestant University Wuppertal/Bethel in Germany, where he also heads the Institute for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies. He is the chairman of the German Society of Missiology.

Preface to the English Edition (2017)
Preface to the German Edition (2013)
1. To Set the Tone: MissionSurprisingly 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 (19611968)
8. Ecumenists and Evangelicals: The Controversies of the 1970s (19681979)
9. From Melbourne to Salvador de Bahia: Poverty, the Fall of the Wall, and Globalization (19801996)
10. From Athens to Busan: The Challenges of the Early Twenty-First Century (20052013)
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