CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Exploring Foundations for Mission
Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar

PART ONE: EXPLORING EXPERIENCE AS A FOUNDATION FOR MISSION

The Restless Result Between ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’
Janice Price and Anne Richards

When Margins Inform and Re-form Mission
Deenabandhu Manchala, Peniel Rajkumar and Dayam Joseph Prabhakar

The Importance of Historical Inquiry in Mission
Beverly Eileen Mitchell

Mission as Testifying to the Experience of Meeting with God
Zlatina Karavaltcheva

PART TWO: EXPLORING THE BIBLE AS A FOUNDATION FOR MISSION

Towards a Missiology Inspired by the Book of Proverbs
Jacques Matthey

Biblical Foundations for Liberative Mission from Latin America
Néstor Míguez

The Bible in and through Mission and Mission in the Bible in Postcolonial Africa
R. Simangaliso Kumalo

The Biblical Foundation for Mission from a Middle Eastern Experience
Mary Mikhael

PART THREE: EXPLORING THEOLOGY AS A FOUNDATION FOR MISSION

Christology and Trinity in Mission
Damon W K So

The Spirit in Mission
Christina Manohar
A Theology of Mission from an Orthodox Perspective
Petros Vassiliadis

Creation and Kingdom-Centered Theology for Missio Inter-Gentes
Edmund Kee-Fook Chia

PART FOUR: THE BIBLE, THEOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE TOGETHER

Roman Catholic Perspectives on Foundations for Mission
Robert Schreiter

A Missiology of Listening for a Folk Church in a Postmodern Context
Mogens Mogensen
Foundations for Mission in a Movement of World Evangelization
Harold Segura and Valdir Steuernagel

The Theological Motivations for Pentecostal Mission
Wonsuk Ma

CONCLUSION

Setting Sail for the Future
Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: ‘Theme 1: Foundations for Mission’ in Daryl Balia and Kirsteen Kim
(eds), Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing Today (Oxford: Regnum, 2010)

Appendix 2: ‘Theme 1: Foundations for Mission,’ in Kirsteen Kim and Andrew
Anderson (eds), Edinburgh 2010: Mission Today and Tomorrow (Oxford: Regnum,
2011)

Bibliography

List of Contributors

This volume provides an important resource for those wishing to gain an overview of significant issues in contemporary missiology whilst understanding how they are applied in particular contexts. Contributors from across the globe and from different Christian traditions explore foundations for mission. The chapters examine in what ways experience, the Bible, and theology are foundational for mission and how they together inform the missional thought of different traditions. The book also raises questions about the continued use of foundations as a helpful metaphor mission reflection and impetus. Graduate students and scholars surveying the field will find this a useful and accessible way to understand changing trends within mission studies.