Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Reluctant Missiology: Christian Missions Irrepressibility Pentecostal Missiology: Missiological Praxis Notrh American Missiology: Mission Post- Christendom Systematic Missiology: Toward a Missiological Theology Part 1 - Reluctant Missiology: Indirec Missiological Reflection Chapter 1 - Going Where the Spirit Goes...:Engaging th Spirit(s) in L.C. Ma's Pneumatological Missiology Overview of the Book Religious Studies Perspectives Theological Analyses Chapter 2 - "As the Spirit Gives Utterance...":Pentecost, Intra-Christian Ecumenism, and the Wider Oekumene Pentecost, Christian Mission, and the Non-Christian Faiths Theses for a Pneumatological Theology of Mission and Evangelization in a Religiously Plural World Chapter 3 - A P(new)matological Paradigm for Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World Elements of a Pneumatological Theology of Religious Pluralism Toward a Pneumatological Missiology of Interfaith Encounter Remaining Challenges for a Pneumatological Theology of Christian Mission in Religiously Plural World Part II - Pentecostal Missiology: Pragmatic Mission Theology Chapter 4 - The Spirit of Hospitality: Pentecostal Perspectives toward a Performative Theology of Interreligious Encaunter The Challenge of religious Pluralism for Modern Pentecostalism The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostal Perspectives toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions The Spirit of Hospitality: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Hospitality A Pneumatological Theology of Interreligious Hospitality: Perfoming Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World Chapter 5 - Missiology and the Interreligious Encounter (with Tony Richie) Pentecostal Theologies of Mission Pentecostal Theologies of the Religions Pentecostalism, Misions, and the Contemporary Interreligious Encounter Chapter 6 - From Demonization to Kin-domization: The Witness of the Spirit and the Renewal of Mission in a Pluralistic World Demonization and the Religious Other: The Challenge for Renewal Missiology The Missiology of Renewal and the Renewal of Missiology: Apostolic Insights in a Pluralistic World Mission and Kin-dominization: Pentecost and Mission in a Pluralistc World PART III - North American Misiology: Theology of Mission Post-Christendom Chapter 7 - The Missiology of Jamestown 1607 - 2007 and Beyon: Toward a Postcolonial Theology of Mission in North America Theological Questions after Jamestown Missiological Prospects after Jamestown Toward a Postcolonial Theology of Mission in North America Chapter 8 - The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in the USA: Reflections on Christian Practices The Buddhist-Christian Encaunter in America: A Brief Overview Toward a Christian Theology of Interreligiou Practices in Dialogue with Buddhism hapter 9 - The Church and Mision Theology in a Post- Constantinian Era: Soundings from th Anglo-American Frontier The Politics of Mission: Yoder's Post-Constantinian Proposals Resident Aliense: Hauerwas as a Colony Missiologist? Emergent Church: Missions Post-Christendom PART IV - Systematic Missiology: Notes for a Christian Missiological Theology Chapter 10 - Primed for the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Missio Spiritus Pneumatologycal Foundations for Christian Mission The Spirit of Creation: Missio Spiritus - Act 1 The Spirit of Redemption: Missio Spiritus - Act 2 The Spirit of the Eschaton: Missio Spiritus - Act 3 Pneumatologial Prolepsis and Christian Mission Chapter 11 - Christilogical Constans in Shifting Contexts: Jesus Christ and the Missio Spiritus in a Pluralistic World Christ the King: The Spirit Enables Proclamation and Confession of Jesus Prophetic Christ: The Spirit Empowers the Hands of the Body of Christ to Anticipate the Reign of God Christ the Priest: The Spirit Dialogially Engages Human Hearts and Lives with the Living Christ Missio Spiritu Christi in a Pluralistic World Chapter 12 - God, Christ? Spirit: Christian Pluralism and Evangelical Mission in the Twenty- First Century Trinitarian Theology and Christian Mission in Pluralistic World Mission as Relational: Interfaith Opportunities and Challenges Mission as Shalomic: Multi-Religious Ideals and Realities Mission as Transformational: Toward a New "Us" and "Them" Conclusion - Christian Mission Theology: Toward a Pneumato-Missiological Praxis for the Third Millennium The Missiological Spirit Pneumato - Missiological Praxis for the Twenty-First Century Bibliography Scripture Index Subject Index

The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates the major features of what will be argued as central to a viable vision and praxis for Christian mission in a postmodern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, and postcolonial world. What emerges will be a distinctively pentecostally- and evangelically-informed missiological theology, one rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses and realities. The argument unfolds through dialogical engagements with the work of others, concrete case studies, and systematic theological reflection. Yong's pneumatological and missiological imagination proffers a model for Christian theology of mission suitable for the twenty-first-century global and pluralistic context even as it exemplifies how a missiological understanding of theology itself unfolds amidst engagements with contemporary ecclesial practices and academic/theological impulses..