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| Perface to the American Society of Missiology Series | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Thesis | |
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| Outstanding Issues | |
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| Rationale | |
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| Introduction toe the Second Edition | |
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| The Birth of Mission: The Jewish-Gentile Frontier | |
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| The Jewish Factor | |
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| Internal Conditions for Mission | |
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| The External Circumstances | |
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| The Pauline Factor in Cross-Cultural Mission | |
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| Paul and the Pluralist Ferment | |
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| Ethnic and Linguistic Factors in Mission | |
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| Dichotomy of Church and Mission | |
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| Mission and Syncretism | |
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| Mission, Reform, and Cultural Relativism | |
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| Reform and the Anticlimax of the Crusades | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Mission and the Cultural Assimilation of Christianity: The Hellenistic Factor | |
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| Function of Translation | |
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| Transition after Constantine | |
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| The Roman and Hellenistic phase: A Synopsis | |
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| The Language Factor in Religious Assimilation | |
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| Christianity and the Confluence of Cultures | |
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| Mission in the Upper Danube | |
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| The Problem Of Hellenism and the Christian Vision | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| The Witness of God and the Vocation of Nations: The Authorized (�King James�) Bible and the Vernacular Ethos | |
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| Communication and Identity | |
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| Subject | |
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| Rationale | |
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| Sacred Scripture and the Common Idiom | |
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| Defense | |
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| Outcome | |
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| Appeal | |
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| Restrospect and Prospect | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Mission and Colonialism: Vernacularization and Westernization | |
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| Spanish Missions in the New World | |
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| The Example of Japan | |
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| The Example of India | |
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| The African Factor in Mission | |
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| The Vernacular Issue | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Protest, Reaction, and Renewal: Vernacular Ferment in the Niger Delta | |
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| Grievances | |
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| Hopes | |
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| The Parallel of the English Reformation | |
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| Transformation in the Niger Delta | |
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| he Role of Dandeson Crowther | |
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| The Fell Clutch of Circumstance: Conflict and Renewal | |
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| The Recoiling Tension of the Vernacular Spiral | |
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| Charismatic Revival and Independency | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Missionary Translation in African Perspective: Religious and Theological Themes | |
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| Theological Repercussions | |
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| Indigenous Agency | |
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| Brief Resume | |
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| Interethnic Encounter and Mutual Exchange | |
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| Reciprocity | |
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| Function of Translation | |
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| Religious Renewal and Indigenous Revitalization | |
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| Concluding Assessment | |
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| �Familiartity Breeds Faith�: First and Last Resorts in Vernacular Translation | |
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| The Field Dimension in Translation | |
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| Philosophical Ideas of Translation | |
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| �The Principle of Recipiency | |
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| Language and Contingency | |
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| �Familiarity Breeds Faith� | |
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| Translation and the Circuitry of Mission | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Translatability in Islam and Christianity with Special Reference to Africa : Recapitulating the Theme | |
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| The Islamic Paradigm | |
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| The Christian Counterpoint | |
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| The Islamic Assessment of Hellenization in Christianity | |
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| Reform, Renewal, and Revival | |
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| The Comparative African Christian Example | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| The Vernacular Principle in Catholic Teaching: Vatican Council II, 1963-1965 | |
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| Appendix 2 | |
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| Chapter Bibliographies | |
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| Index | |