Index

Due to the use of para id indexing, indexed terms that span two pages (e.g., 52–53) may, on occasion, appear on only one of those pages.

Tables and figures are indicated by t and f following the page number

Abraham534, 552, 707

activism274, 618, 623–24, 625, 657

Acts of the Apostles48, 132–33, 222, 595

ad gentes
decree168, 189
missio78–79, 92n.37, 202–3, 210–11

advocacy10, 118, 241, 250–51, 274, 277–78, 279, 281, 387, 396, 656–57, 676

Africa. See Central Africa; See East Africa; See Southern Africa; See sub-Saharan Africa; See West Africa

African independent churches (AICs)191, 315, 406, 477, 488, 674, 697–98, 708, 713–14, 731t

African traditional religion475, 520–21, 572–73

aid (development)257, 259, 498–99, 505 See also humanitarianism; See also international development
missionary338
workers323

agnosticism541

alcoholism487

All African Conference of Churches (AACC)172

Allah286

Alopen430, 601

America. See Latin America; See North America; See United States of America

Anglican Church22, 43, 151, 168, 476–77, 548, 553, 554, 574, 693, 713–14

anthropology6–7, 403
biblical103–5
of Christianity6–7, 29, 46–47, 403

apartheid44–45, 63, 65, 169–70, 428, 476, 635–36, 639–40

apocalypse84–85

apostle4–5, 130–31, 132–33, 134–35, 137–38, 531–32, 689
church of the139
Paul89, 134, 204–5, 206–7, 550
Saint Thomas the429

apostolicity
of the church101, 130, 131, 187, 384
of the laity189

appreciative inquiry165, 174, 176

Arab-Muslim568–69

ascension136
spiritual ascension140

Asia. See Central Asia; See East Asia; See Southeast Asia

asylum-seekers567, 575–76 See also displacement; See also migration; See also mobility; See also refugees

atheism152, 288, 365–66, 373, 374, 466, 730t

atonement572, 587–88

Augustine of Canterbury48, 384, 675

Augustine of Hippo203, 207, 384, 440

Australia338, 356, 431–32, 440, 447, 448

Azariah, Vedanayagam Samuel430

Azumah, John7

Bakongo689–90

baptism120, 123–24, 130, 134, 136, 139, 141, 224–25, 228–29, 359, 368, 502, 559, 568, 575–76
of Jesus112

Barrett, David B.389–90, 726–27, 728

Barth, Karl112, 187–88

Bediako, Kwame32, 146, 475

Benedict XVI122–23, 213, 285, 558

Bevans, Stephen4–5, 10, 12, 44–45, 81, 111, 139, 178, 211, 426, 673, 678

Bible women12–13

Boff, Leonardo170, 178, 191, 244, 427, 714–15

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich359, 499

Bosch, David J.4–5, 11, 44, 129, 169–70, 277, 352–53, 390–91, 424, 635–36

Brazil170

British East India Company385–86, 569–70, 589, 692

British Empire337, 340–41, 358–59, 693

Buchanan, Claudius385–86, 587–88

Buddhism10–11, 342, 600, 730t See also Mahāyāna Buddhism; See also Theravãda Buddhism

Cameroon258–59, 260–61, 265

Canada427

Cape Town Commitment118–19, 240, 281

Cape Town Congress240, 281

capitalism265–66, 385–86, 698–700, 702

Carey, William385–86, 531–32, 724

catechist259 See also deacon; See also elder; See also laity

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia287

Catholicism185, 202–3, 224, 226, 384, 389–90, 457–58, 464, 603, 605–6, 620, 731t
anti-Catholicism590

catholicity131–32, 438
ecological712
new426

Central Africa405–6

Central Asia384, 469

Champion, Denise443, 447

charismatic Christianity66–67, 149–50, 294, 296–97, 409–10, 461–62, 467–68, 485, 487–89, 575, 731t See also Pentecostalism

China7, 9–10, 48, 191, 282–85, 322, 339, 430, 456, 601, 606

China Inland Mission459, 694

Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association464, 465

Christian Conference of Asia (CCA)172, 643

Christian Federation of Malaysia287

Christocentrism114–15, 121, 249, 538

Christology114, 134, 468, 557, 706

Church. See also ecclesiology
church growth3–4, 168, 187, 284, 389–90, 391, 465, 622
church planting15–16, 196, 200n.46, 321–22, 411–13, 414, 623, 654, 661

Church of England. See Anglican Church

Church Missionary Society (CMS)385–86, 570, 572, 725

circumcision222, 444, 475–76, 480–81, 485–86

civilization336
planetary civilization712
Western civilization603–4, 636–37, 693

colonialism330

Common Call, Edinburgh 2010241, 282

Communion. See Eucharist

communism365–67

communitarianism266–67

community122
Christian community138–39
and church123–24

compassion117, 177, 246, 261, 295–96, 411–12, 413, 442, 446, 661

confessional diversity9, 95–96 See also denomination; See also ecumenism

confessional language10, 247

conflict250, 265, 274, 389, 645
of interest220, 221, 227
political319, 340–41, 409–10
religious287, 306–7

Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions655

Constantinople41–42

consumerism89, 701, 717

consummation210, 707

contextualization63, 158, 625–26 See also enculturation; See also inculturation
and translation405

contextual theology44–45, 51, 81, 114, 426–27

conversion132, 221, 222, 223, 224, 230, 314, 316, 348–49, 385, 408–9, 486, 548–49, 675, See also metanoia
of Paul204–5
of the world225

Council of Churches in Malaysia (CCM)287

Council of Constantinople384

covenant206–7, 209, 215, 548, 552, 556, 557, 572–73
with church133, 229
with God and gentiles79

Crowther, Samuel Ajayi572–73, 574–75

crucifixion278, 494, 572

crusades314, 335, 569

curriculum27–28, 38–39, 165–66, 250, 259, 321, 520

Cyril and Methodius48, 372, 675

Czechoslovakia13, 365

D’Costa, Gavin549, 551, 558

Dalit356–57, 359, 638
biblical hermeneutics350
theologies113, 430–31

Daoism351, 431

Darwin, Charles495, 593–94

Davidson, Randall25

deacon131, 132–33, 135 See also catechist; See also elder; See also laity

deaconess652

decolonization41, 145, 323–24

democracy495, 501

Denmark22, 495, 567, 575, 576
Danish cartoons573
Danish church575

denomination. See also ecumenism; See also interdenominational relations
denominational boundaries116
denominational relations22, 317–18

development work. See integral human development; See international development

diaconal ministry108n.30, 137–38, 159, 269–70, 674, 676, 683n.29

diakonia676–71

dialectical204–5

diaspora. See also emigration; See also immigration; See also migration
Jewish diaspora549, 675
missiology679, 686n.64

digital media15, 56, 178, 241–42, 249–50, 727 See also social media

disciple8, 15–16, 131, 133, 206–7, 210, 531, 549–50
feet of137–38

discipleship43, 119–21, 133
mission as12

discrimination48, 104, 283, 431–32, 635, 645, 646–47, 656, 657–58, 661–62

displacement293, 359 See also asylum-seekers; See also migration; See also mobility; See also refugees
context409, 411–13

diversity45, 533
religious14, 536
sexual124–25, 664

Dominicans29–30, 48, 170, 185, 204, 317, 384, 430, 458, 531–32, 690

dominion
over104, 208–9, 483
power and357, 637

Dube Shomanah, Musa W.309n.50, 663

Dutch East Indies19

Dutch Reformed Church638, 646–47

Dzubinski, Leanne308n.12, 663, 668n.61

East Africa17n.8, 46–47, 405–6, 482

East Asia604, 608

ecclesiology4–5, 31, 130–32, 189, 192
patristic135

ecojustice709, 716, 718

ecology86, 169–70, 482–84, 716–18

Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT)148, 172

ecumenical structures196

ecumenism9, 22, 168, 232 See also interdenominational relations
and ecclesial unity95–96, 103
and evangelism280–82

Edinburgh 1910. See World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910

Edinburgh 201016n.3, 40, 241, 282, 394, 660–61, 706

education321, 336 See also schools
as evangelization137, 368
mission-sponsored46–47, 185–86, 224, 694–95
theological26, 42, 67, 147, 148–49, 465, 692

egalitarianism211, 459, 498–99

Egypt116, 150, 444

elder465, 485, 654 See also catechist; See also deacon; See also laity

emancipation174, 288, 639, 655 See also slavery

emigration677–78 See also diaspora; See also immigration; See also migration; See also mobility

empire11, 63–64, 89, 336–37, 350, 437, 698

enculturation421, 443 See also contextualization; See also inculturation

England359, 696

Enlightenment, the204, 277, 487–88, 592–93

eschatology187–88, 279, 555

eternal life135, 138, 316, 410

ethics138, 250, 415
applied ethics62
ethics of evangelization229–30
unethical conduct222, 504–5, 675

ethnocentrism426

ethnodoxology395–96

ethnography15, 57, 157, 395, 404–5, 513, 518, 622

Eucharist123–24, 134, 138, 213–14

eurocentrism316–19

Europe22, 26–27, 47, 49, 146, 158, 219, 313–15, 316–19, 369, 425, 592–93

Evangelii Gaudium12, 99–100, 108n.20, 118, 210, 422, 701

evangelism5, 100–1, 120, 240–41, 280–82, 653–55

evangelization9, 19–20, 47, 48, 113, 225 See also new evangelization
culture and475–76
ethics of229–30
mission and4–5, 40, 95
practices of9–10, 47–48

evolution440, 499, 584, 593–94 See also Darwin, Charles

exclusivism536, 582

excommunication463, 464

exorcism117, 501 See also healing; See also spiritual warfare

Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC)172, 422, 430

fellowship227, 232, 372–73, 555, 608–9, 641, 718

feminism321, 505, 658–59, 709

feminist theology8, 660–63, 664

Fifohazana296–97

Finland22, 320, 690–91

Francis I100–2, 120

Francis of Assisi116

Francis Xavier584, 603, 605

Franciscans48, 185, 317, 384, 430, 470, 531–32, 569, 605, 656–57

France22, 205, 219, 223–25, 228–29, 495, 659

Francophone anthropology406

friendship116, 121, 554, 609, 638, 678

fundamentalism501

Gaudium et Spes170, 177, 214

gender32, 295, 315, 319, 321, 432, 440, 652–53, 658–61, 662–64 See also women missionaries
discrimination320, 497–98
representation243
studies319, 657

Germany20–21, 22, 112, 149–50, 158–59, 498–99, 559

Ghana477, 479–81

Gifford, Paul261–62, 269

Global Christian Forum (GCF)227

global North6, 80, 121, 246–47, 257, 260–61, 262–63, 265–66, 268–69

global South6, 32, 80, 168, 172, 187–88, 257, 260–61, 262–64, 268–69, 321–22, 396, 711

Gnanadason, Aruna430, 663

God. See also kingdom of God; See also reign of God
as creator8, 11, 208–9, 447–48, 706, 708, 709–10, 715, 716–17, 718
image of98–99, 105

Gutiérrez, Gustavo112–13, 170, 178, 244, 427–28

hagiography322–23, 333–35

Hanciles, Jehu J.158

Harris, William Wade488

healing. See also ministry; See also spiritual warfare; See also trauma
gifts of134
by Jesus42, 123, 299–302
mission and112–13, 293
practices148–49, 230, 295–97, 304–6, 410, 468–69, 485, 486–87, 523–24
process of5, 12–13, 15, 149–50, 293, 300, 301, 302, 304–7, 464, 486–87

health
human241–42, 717
mental196
as mission257–58

heathen322

Hebrew women442–43

hegemony322, 331, 343, 452

heritage
Christian136–37, 410
colonial393–94
cultural136–37, 142, 475, 573, 605–6

hermeneutics60, 65, 153–54, 443

hierarchy
in church211, 619–20, 690
of gender298, 514, 662
in mission334, 338

Hinduism10–11, 296, 429, 496, 581, 730t

historiography322, 339, 405

Hollenweger, Walter27, 146, 280

Holocaust499, 555, 588–90

Holy Communion. See Eucharist

Holy Spirit39, 66–67, 101, 104–5, 537–38 See also pneumatology

homeless230, 247, 412, 674

hospitality124–25

hospitals5, 137–38, 225, 261, 269–70, 294, 320, 459–60, 518–19, 653, 693 See also medical mission

humanitarianism322–23, 460 See also aid; See also international development

hybridity355

Iberian Christianity385

Iberian Peninsula559, 689–90

identity539
Christian identity52, 152, 426
church’s missionary identity188, 195, 294
cultural identity64–65, 137–38

ideology46–47, 493, 499
Christian130–31
communist368
economic365–66
imperial87–88, 89
philosophical365
racial645–46
religious575

idolatry588–89, 590–91

Ignatius of Loyola48, 51, 531–32

illiteracy259

immigration314–15, 626–27, 672–73 See also asylum-seekers; See also diaspora; See also emigration; See also migration; See also mobility; See also refugees

imperialism319, 330–31
and Christian mission282, 337, 340
cultural imperialism318

incarnation101, 124, 136, 138, 212, 278–79, 421, 425, 433, 467–68, 486, 536, 713, 716–17

inclusivism536–37, 538

inculturation14, 63, 111, 420, 626 See also contextualization; See also enculturation

India23, 149–50, 358–59, 429, 500, 569–70

indigenous Christianity324, 341, 385, 572–73
churches296–97, 333–34, 389–90, 460, 461–62 See also African independent churches
missionary movements341, 732t

indigenous peoples15, 265–66, 317, 318, 321, 322, 356–57, 385, 437, 502–3, 692–93
women6–7, 15, 338–39, 437–38, 440–41, 442–43, 654, 656

indigenous religions438–39, 479, 513, 531–32, 711, 730t

Indonesia5, 15, 150, 169, 293, 304, 306–7

inferiority211, 319, 350, 573, 592, 641, 643, 644–45, 690–91

injustice117, 119

Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) (Sisters of Loreto)656

institutionalization
as a method56
of mission studies39–40

integral human development95–96 See also international development

integral mission113, 281

intercultural theology4–5, 13, 145, 425

interdenominational relations357–58, 646 See also denomination; See also ecumenism

rivalry9–10, 17n.8, 220, 228–29, 531–32

interdisciplinarity56, 63, 176, 383

interfaith relations. See interreligious relations

International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS)31–32, 172, 390–91

international development257 See also aid; See also humanitarianism; See also integral human development

International Missionary Council (IMC)168, 187, 518–19, 636, 643–47

internationalism322–23

interreligious relations120, 157, 159–60, 531, 548 See also unification of religions
interreligious dialogue10, 123, 540–42

intolerance7, 117, 366, 502, 627

Irenaeus of Lyon135

Islam50, 497–98, 730t
and Christian mission567
and religious plurality532–33

Israel79, 115–16, 122, 207, 222, 279, 359, 444–47, 469, 534, 548, 549–50, 551, 555, 674, 707

Jenkins, Philip392, 574

Jerusalem86, 340–41, 555, 643

Jesuits29–30, 31–32, 39, 48–49, 51, 106n.5, 185, 229–30, 307n.3, 316–17, 384–85, 427–28, 429–30, 441, 458, 525n.3, 531–32

Jewish people279, 548 See also Judaism

John Paul II114, 224, 558, 560, 700

Judaism222, 548, 730t See also Jewish people

judgement550

Judson, Ann654, 659–60

justice
and the local church191, 192
as missionary commitment112–13

Kenya389–90, 428

kerygma98, 101–2, 135, 136, 549

King, Roberta R.249, 395

kingdom of God10, 15–16, 97–98, 101–2, 104–5, 191, 279, 410, 609–10

kinship478, 523–24, 718

Klaasen, John264–67

Korea. See North Korea; See South Korea

Kraemer, Hendrik187, 191–92

Kraft, Charles H.240–41

Kwok, Pui-Lan32, 656, 663

laity12–13, 141, 186, 188, 189–90, 191–92, 195, 371–72, 458, 459, 465, 586, 620, 625, 628 See also catechist; See also evangelist; See also elder; See also women missionaries

Lambeth Conference554

Latin America427–28, 617

Latin American Episcopal Council172

Latourette, Kenneth Scott28, 43, 386–87, 388

Lausanne Covenant113, 223, 280–81

Lausanne Movement114, 240–41

liberalism321, 559, 619

liberation theology112–13, 114–16, 120, 170, 244, 358, 374, 427, 430–31, 623, 625, 627, 677–78, 700 See also Mana Wāhine

literacy
evangelism and484
media250
religious505
vernacular315

liturgy202
and hospitality124–25
as worship212–15

Livingstone, David694–95, 711

London Missionary Society (LMS)27, 459, 637, 696

love60, 61–62, 78, 141, 229–30, 446, 572

Lutheran World Federation (LWF)422

Mackay, John A.28, 386–87

Madagascar259, 296–97

Mahāyāna Buddhism600 See also Buddhism

Majority World. See global South

Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Taoism (MCCBCHST)287

Mana Wāhine443–47

Maori438–41, 443, 446, 655 See also New Zealand

margins6–7, 99–100, 120, 131–32, 134–35, 194, 258–60, 466
missions from the8–9, 118–19, 697–98
people on the80, 119

martyrs136–37, 568–69, 732t

Marxism321, 620, 625

Maryknoll missionaries31–32, 388, 390

maternalism319–20

McGavran, Donald389–90

medical mission294, 295, 296–97, 459–60, 718 See also hospitals

Mennonites476, 704n.21

Messiah206–7, 549–50

metanoia138 See also conversion

Methodism655

methodology3, 56, 57–58, 155–56, 288, 671–73
anthropological29, 57, 624–25 See also ethnography
descriptive151

Mexico624

Middle East569, 572, 657–58

migration13–14, 267–69, 324–25, 575–76, 655, 657–58, 670 See also asylum-seekers; See also diaspora; See also displacement; See also emigration; See also immigration; See also mobility; See also refugees

millennialism368–69, 385–86, 461, 467–68

ministry
Christ’s42, 120
church ministry371, 373, 552
healing294, 296–97, 299
pastoral177–78, 234n.20
social280

mission agency189–90, 192–93, 196–97, 261

Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit657

Mission and Evangelism – An Ecumenical Affirmation (1982)100–1

mobility6–7, 13–14, 65–66, 404, 408–9, 411–13, 693–94 See also asylum-seekers; See also displacement; See also emigration; See also immigration; See also migration; See also refugees

modernity322, 432

Moltmann, Jürgen176, 373, 557

monks50, 140, 185, 531–32, 568–69, 603, 675

monotheism586

Moravians49, 316–17

multiculturalism286, 389, 594

Myers, Bryant L.264–65

National Evangelical Christian Fellowship287

nationalism340–41

Nazism559–60

neoliberalism678–79, 700–1

Netherlands19, 30, 495–96

Newbigin, Lesslie42, 112, 187, 540–41, 726

new evangelization101, 108n.23, 223, 225, 230

New Zealand440

Nigeria481, 569, 573, 575

nomenclature
for mission structures334
of world Christianity383, 392–93

North Africa384

North America22, 167–68, 390, 426–27

North Korea381n.65

Norway258, 260–61

Oceania431–32

Oduyoye, Mercy Amba428, 715

oppression86, 100–1, 112–13, 350, 442
gender80, 437–38, 440–41, 442, 656, 661, 663, 709 See also gender; See also patriarchy; See also women [mission to]; See also women missionaries
social265, 427, 636
spiritual437–38

oral culture14–15, 438–39, 514–16, 518

orientalism583–84, 604

Orthodox Church119, 121, 124, 130–32, 731t
Orthodox mission137–38
Orthodox theology132–33
Pan-Orthodox Council (Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church)16n.2, 119, 141

Orthodoxy138, 456

pandemic713

papacy385, 700

paradigm shifts. See Bosch, David J.

pastoral care141, 166, 247, 294

paternalism197, 319, 498–99, 656

patriarchy437–38, 441–42

patriotic movements463

peacebuilding10

pedagogy263–64, 632n.22, 677

Pentecostal World Fellowship (PWF)227

Pentecostalism66–67, 114, 149–50, 223, 228, 267–69, 294, 403–4, 406, 408–10, 461, 485, 487–89, 575, 625, 699, 702, 731t See also charismatic Christianity

persecution117, 284–85, 576

Persian Empire384, 385–86, 689

Phan, Peter C.80, 181n.36, 213–14, 392, 399n.37

Philippines315, 724

philosophy63, 140, 359, 366, 374, 466–67, 701

pietism49, 177, 385, 585

pilgrimage131, 358, 372, 531–32

pluralism229
Christian pluralism139
cultural and religious pluralism226, 286

pneumatology67, 423, 537–38 See also Holy Spirit

politics132–33, 222, 274–76, 689–90

popular movement461–62, 466–68, 619

popular religion177–78, 294, 426–28, 467–68, 625

Portugal317, 319

postcolonialism348 See also theory: postcolonial

postdenominationalism456, 470

postmodernity140, 331, 431–32, 433

poverty80, 226, 423, 618, 699–700, 714–15

praxis of mission274, 387, 679

preaching. See proclamation

proclamation
of the gospel102, 244
mission as proclamation114

progressivism165, 505

prophecy and mission117–18

proselytism9, 122, 129, 141–42, 219, 367–68, 498–99, 502, 541, 549, 553–54, 558, 607

prosperity theology141, 148–49, 152, 268–69, 410, 418–19n.46, 488, 699–700, 702

Protestantism50, 185, 385–86, 459

Qur’an50, 532, 533, 538, 568, 572

race8, 432, 504, 635
interracial relations277–78

racism559, 571, 635
White supremacy635, 641, 642

reconciliation281, 294–95
ecumenical9–10
God of160–61
process of263–64

Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)267–69

redemption spirituality206–8

Redemptoris Missio114, 391, 422, 541–42, 558

refugees43, 675–337 See also asylum-seekers; See also displacement; See also migration; See also mobility

reign of God42, 168, 177 See also kingdom of God

relief279, 460, 676 See also aid; See also humanitarianism; See also international development

religious liberty282–85, 367

Renaissance197, 552

renewal279 See also revival
of mission studies3–4, 40–44, 390–91

resistance89, 264, 284, 340–41, 349–50, 603, 643

resurrection136, 206–8

revitalization66–67, 394–95

revival. See also renewal
of mission185, 249–50
revivalist churches403–4, 409–14

revolution
cultural464
in mission studies167
political225, 276, 365–66, 374–75

Ricci, Matteo48, 119, 430, 458, 605

ritual124, 266, 296–97, 445, 513–14, 515, 523, 586, 587–88, 589, 590–91 See also baptism; See also circumcision
ancestral297, 439, 458, 479
fertility444, 482–83
rites of passage368, 477, 479–81, 484–85

Robert, Dana L.6, 43, 318–22, 652, 711

Roman Empire85, 86–87, 88, 384, 689

Rome41–42, 85, 87–88, 223

Romero, Óscar117–18

Russia365–66, 604

Rwanda410–11, 482–117

sacramentality138, 202–5

sacraments123–24, 131, 203–5

sacredness204–5, 439

sacred texts204–5, 522–23, 526n.7

salvation98–99, 105, 136–38, 209, 278–79, 533–35, 536, 557, 587–88, 610–11, 699, 715

Sanneh, Lamin28, 146, 158, 298–99, 391–95, 423

Sarpong, Peter K.385

schism134

Schmidlin, Joseph20–21, 170

schools137, 258–61, 265, 317–18, 320–21, 335–36, 370, 441, 459, 495–96, 569, 602–3, 653, 656 See also education

Schreiter, Robert J.63, 78, 146, 148–49, 426

Schroeder Roger P.44–45, 105, 115, 139, 211

Scotland340–41

Scudder, Ida295–96

Second Vatican Council31, 101, 113, 118, 213, 477

secularism493

segregation. See racism

sexism251, 497–98 See also oppression: gender

shamanism516, 523, 530n.58, 592–93

Sikhism287

Sinicization7, 456, 461, 467, 469–70

Sisters of Sion564n.48

slavery337, 385–86, 466, 476, 674–75, 708–9

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai438

socialism321, 372

social media240, 241, 246–47, 249–50, 267–68, 287, 642 See also digital media

Society of the Divine Word (SVD)24–25, 44–45, 115

Society of Jesus. See Jesuits

sociology276–77, 624–25

South Africa8, 30, 258, 262–63, 266, 635–36, 637–38

Southeast Asia469, 655

South Korea522, 699–700

sovereignty of Christ249

Spain88, 317, 319, 559, 603

spiritual warfare282, 409–10, 487–89

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorthy355

stewardship208–9, 523

Stott, John R.W.708

Stroope, Michael49, 352–53

subaltern12–13, 176, 321–22, 349–50, 356, 443, 444

sub-Saharan Africa258–60, 428–29, 569, 574, 713

Sudan483

suffering117, 209, 284, 285, 294–95, 299, 300, 301–2, 413, 445, 448–50, 464, 646 See also healing; See also martyrs; See also persecution; See also trauma

Sunquist, Scott W.342, 366

supernatural experiences439, 467–68, 476, 479, 486–88, 575

superstition46–47, 479, 570, 589, 592–93, 603–4, 605, 606, 711

supremacy134–35
Christian282
racial438, 635, 641, 642 See also racism
Western323

Sweden28–29, 242, 518–19

Switzerland227

Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM)172

synagogue550, 551, 561

syncretism240–41, 406, 426, 442

synod
office of657
Sixteenth Synod of Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren372, 375

Syria457, 573, 670

Taiwan340, 607

Tambaram conference186–88, 644–47

Tanzania428, 691, 694, 696

Taoism. See Daoism

technology13, 47, 432

terminology, missiological29–31, 38–39, 41, 45, 61–64, 248f, 421

Thailand602

theism374, 586

theocentrism78, 211–12

theocracy570

theory
grounded theory165, 171–72
and method56
postcolonial5–6, 153, 154–55, 349, 352

Theravãda Buddhism600 See also Buddhism

Thomas Aquinas123, 203

Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM)463–64, 465, 469

Together Towards Life12, 99–100, 118–19, 678, 699

tolerance551, 602, 640–41

Torah549, 558

totalitarianism285, 501

training of missionaries19–27

transculturalism150

transformative
action118
approaches41–42, 63–64
mission165, 174

translation
of the Bible321, 429, 430
and contextualization568

transnationalism13, 313–14

trauma296–99, 300, 301, 302–3, 304, 305–7, 441 See also healing

tribalism64–65, 482

trinitarian theology12, 49, 67, 111, 582

triumphalism502, 608

Turkey88, 571

Tutu, Desmond266–67, 269

ubuntu266–67, 269, 481–82, 710

Uganda6–7, 15, 403–4, 409–14

Unification Church49–50

unification of religions609

United States of America282, 368–69, 390, 427–28, 555

unreached people groups240, 732t

Uppsala assembly114, 242, 280, 646–47

urbanization263–64, 466, 594, 619, 729t

Vatican II. See Second Vatican Council

vernacular136, 259, 260, 321, 429

victims
of demonic or spiritual affliction297, 299, 487–88, 489 See also spiritual warfare
of ecological crisis718
of trauma301, 302

Vietnam430, 654

violence169–70, 225–26, 275, 303, 304, 441

virtues88, 261–62, 431, 481–82

visual culture14–15, 356

vocation
cultural192, 195
missional141, 188, 189

volunteer287, 304–6, 386, 465

vulnerable persons39, 229–30, 267, 675

Walls, Andrew29, 31–32, 52, 158, 520

Warneck, Gustav21–22, 166

wealth89, 279, 410, 413, 641, 688, 699, 717

Weber, Max50, 265–66, 276–77, 466–67

Welby, Justin714

welfare
of migrants673
social welfare606

wellbeing78, 277, 294–95, 340, 488, 505, 523–24, 705, 708, 712 See also health; See also integral human development; See also welfare

West Africa385–86, 390

Whitby conference187, 645–46

Willingen conference112, 186–88, 646

wisdom447–50

witchcraft477–78, 487, 522–23

witnessing130, 140, 168, 221, 227, 293, 301–2, 303–4, 305, 306, 493–94, 595

women, mission to296, 658–60

women missionaries295–97, 319–20, 338, 515 See also Bible women; See also gender

World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)238–39, 242–47

World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)342, 700

World Council of Churches (WCC)113, 168, 211, 422, 553

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA)227

World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 191023–27, 40, 223, 318, 532, 636–39

worldview82–83, 87, 88, 156–57, 263, 267, 296, 405, 476, 483, 498–99, 585

worship130, 137, 158, 212–15, 305, 357–58, 428–29, 641, 708, 716 See also Eucharist; See also liturgy

Wright, Christopher J.H.92n.37, 122

Xavier. See Francis Xavier

xenophobia548, 626–27, 640–41, 677

Zionism552

Zulu258, 516, 519