Why appropriate? / Charles H. Kraft -- The development of contextualization theory in Euroamerican missiology / Charles H. Kraft -- The missionary encounter with culture since the seventeenth century / Wilbert R. Shenk -- The function of appropriate contextualization in mission / Darrell L. Whiteman -- Why isn't contextualization implemented? / Charles H. Kraft -- Is Christianity a religion or a faith? / Charles H. Kraft -- Contextualization in three crucial dimensions / Charles H. Kraft -- From systematic and biblical to missional theology / Tite Tiénou and Paul G. Hiebert -- The Hebraic covenant as a model for contextualization / Robert L. Gallagher -- Meaning equivalence contextualization / Charles H. Kraft -- Dynamics of contextualization / Charles H. Kraft -- Five perspectives of contextually appropriate missional theology / Charles E. Van Engen -- Toward a contextually appropriate methodology in mission theology / Charles E. Van Engen -- Appropriate hermeneutics / Shawn B. Redford -- Contextualization and time : generational appropriateness / Charles H. Kraft -- Power-giving leadership : transformation for a missional church / Sherwood Lingenfelter -- How appropriate is the church growth paradigm in today's mission contexts? / Eddie Gibbs -- Variations on a theme of appropriate contextualization : music lessons from Africa / Roberta R. King -- Appropriate relationships / Charles H. Kraft -- Contextualizing the relationship dimension of the Christian life / Kate J. Rawson -- Spiritual power : a missiological issue / Charles H. Kraft -- Appropriate contextualization of spiritual power / Charles H. Kraft -- Appropriate approaches in Muslim contexts / John Travis and Anna Travis -- A typology of approaches to Thai folk Buddhists / Paul H. DeNeui -- Renewal, revival, and contextualization / Paul E. Pierson -- Appropriate witness to postmoderns : re-incarnating the way of Jesus in 21st century Western culture / Jonathan Campbell -- Reciprocal contextualization / Frecia C. Johnson -- The incarnation as matrix for appropriate theologies / Dean S. Gilliland.

Appropriate Christianity consists of 28 chapters by 18 authors approaching contextualization in three dimensions: truth, allegiance and spiritual power. Over the years, there have been quite a number of helpful discussions of the contextualization of theological truth. Though we have been helped greatly by them, it is high time we began to deal also with allegiance and spiritual power, two additional dimensions that Jesus considered of great importance. Any adequate and appropriate treatment of the contextualization of biblical Christianity needs to deal with all three of these "crucial dimensions." For allegiance to Christ is the basis for all we do that makes us Christian, and Jesus was very much into spiritual power. If we are to be truly biblical, we must deal also with these areas.