Intercultural theology. Volume 2, Theologies of mission / Henning Wrogemann ; translated by Karl E. Böhmer.

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In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Tracing developments across a range of Christian traditions, movements, themes, and regions of the globe, Wrogemann provides an overview of the theological underpinnings, rationalizations, and visions for mission and its practice.

To set the tone : mission, surprisingly different -- Developments to date : an introductory overview -- On the beginnings of mission studies : Gustav Warneck -- Salvation-historical theology of mission : Karl Hartenstein and Walter Freytag -- From Edinburgh to Achimota : the World Missionary Conferences from 1910 to 1958 -- A history-of-the promise theology of mission : Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk -- From New Delhi to Uppsala : churches, missions, and decolonization (1961-1968) -- Ecumenists and Evangelicals : the controversies of the 1970s (1968-1979) -- From Melbourne to Salvador de Bahia : poverty, the fall of the wall, and globalization (1980-1996) -- From Athens to Busan : the challenges of the early twenty-first century (2005-2013) -- Roman Catholic mission theology before and after Vatican II -- Orthodox mission theology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : an overview -- North American Protestantism : God's chosen nation? -- The Anglican Church : mission-shaped church -- Mission-theological profiles in Pentecostal churches and movements -- Missionary initiatives and challenges -- Mission and the kingdom of God : from liberation to martyrdom? -- Mission and money : is God the friend of the poor or of the rich? -- Mission and 'power' : healing and deliverance? -- Mission and dialogue : love affair or war of the roses? -- Mission and reconciliation : resolving conflicts? -- Mission and gender : the sexes and interculturality? -- Mission and conversion : a change of religion, or transformation? -- The source of strength for Christian mission, and the forms it takes -- The doxological dimension : mission as the glorification of God -- The oikoumenical dimension : mission across the ecumenical spectrum.

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