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| Abbreviations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How the Concept of Mission Has Changed: An Introduction | |
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| From Ransoming Pagan Babies to Mission on Every Continent | |
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| New Understanding of Mission | |
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| Mission and Table Fellowship | |
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| Additional Considerations and Challenges | |
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| Aim and Structure of This Book | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Starting with the Big Picture: God's Mission, the Reign of God, and Christ the Savior | |
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| God's Mission and the Spirit | |
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| Jesus and the Reign of God | |
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| The Mission of Jesus and Table Fellowship | |
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| Jesus Christ, the Savior | |
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| Mission to All Peoples | |
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| Jesus Encounters the Samaritan Woman at the Well | |
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| Mission as Seeds and Weeds | |
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| Sketching the Big Picture | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Spirit Leads the Disciples in New Directions: The Biblical Portrait of a Church Missionary by Nature | |
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| Before Pentecost (Acts 1): Disappointment and Expectation | |
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| Pentecost (Acts 2-5): Receiving Power to Bear Witness | |
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| Stephen and the Hellenists (Acts 6-7): Jewish Disciples Pushed beyond Their Comfort Zone | |
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| Samaria and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8): To the Ends of the Earth? | |
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| Cornelius and His Household (Acts 10:1-11:18): Peter and the Gentile Mission | |
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| Antioch (Acts 11:19-29): Mission Matures | |
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| Universal Mission (Acts 12-28): Missional and Church Self-Consciousness Spreads | |
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| A Tiny Church with a Universal Mission | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Mission from the Early Church to the Fall of Constantinople (100-1453): House Churches, Monks, Mendicants, and Beguines | |
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| Mission in the Early Church (100-301): Individual Christians in a Variety of Situations | |
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| Mission and the Monastic Movement (313-907): From Constantine to the Fall of the T'ang Dynasty | |
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| Mission and the Mendicant Movement (1000-1453): Preachers, Third Orders, and Beguines | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Mission from Columbus to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1492-1989): Prophets, Jesuits, Missionary Societies, and New Approaches | |
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| Mission in the Age of Discovery (1492-1773): Conquistadors, Prophets, and Jesuits | |
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| Mission in the Age of Progress (1792-1914): Civilizers, Evangelizers, and Volunteer Societies | |
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| Mission in the Twentieth Century (1919-1989): The Emergence of World Christianity | |
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| Icons of the Transformation of Mission | |
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| Emergence of World Christianity: Christianity as a World Religion | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Three Documents as Sign Posts for Mission Today: The Why, Who, and Where of Mission | |
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| Mission before Vatican II: Saving Souls and Establishing the Church | |
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| Mission as Participation in the Mission of the Triune God | |
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| Implications of the Three Missional Principles of Vatican II | |
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| Mission as Liberating Service of the Reign of God | |
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| Mission as Proclamation of Jesus Christ as Universal Savior | |
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| The Why, the Who, and the Where of Mission | |
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| The Wedding Banquet as a Parable of Mission | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| A Single but Complex Reality: The What of Mission | |
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| Witness and Proclamation | |
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| Liturgy, Prayer, and Contemplation | |
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| Pursuit of Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation | |
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| Interreligious and Secular Dialogue | |
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| Inculturation | |
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| Reconciliation | |
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| Integrating the Single but Complex Reality of Mission | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| The Mission-Driven Parish and Diocese: The Spirituality and Practice-the How-of Mission | |
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| The Spirituality of Mission | |
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| Prophetic Dialogue: Discerning the Already and the Not Yet | |
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| Practice of Mission | |
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| Once Again, Mission as a Single but Complex Reality | |
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| Table Fellowship as the Goal of Mission in Its Fullness | |
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| Summing Up: What Is the Mission of the Church? | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| A Sample Parish Assessment Tool | |
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| Resources and Contact Information | |
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| Bibliography/Reference List | |
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| Official Catholic Church Documents Related to Mission after 1960 (in chronological order) | |
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| Basic Resources on Mission and for Mission Education | |
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| Index | |