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| Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition | |
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| Preface to the Series | |
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| In Memoriam: David J. Bosch, 1929-1992 | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction. Mission: The Contemporary Crisis | |
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| Between Danger and Opportunity | |
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| The Wider Crisis | |
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| Foundation, Aim, and Nature of Mission | |
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| From Confidence to Malaise | |
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| A "Pluriverse" of Missiology | |
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| Mission: An Interim Definition | |
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| New Testament Models of Mission | |
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| Reflections on the New Testament as a Missionary Document | |
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| The Mother of Theology | |
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| Mission in the Old Testament | |
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| Bible and Mission | |
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| Jesus and Israel | |
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| An All-inclusive Mission | |
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| And the Gentiles? | |
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| Salient Features of Jesus' Person and Ministry | |
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| Jesus and the Reign of God | |
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| Jesus and the Law (the Torah) | |
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| Jesus and His Disciples | |
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| Mission from the Perspective of Easter | |
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| The Early Christian Mission | |
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| The Missionary Practice of Jesus and the Early Church | |
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| Where the Early Church Failed | |
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| Were There Any Alternatives? | |
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| Matthew: Mission as Disciple-Making | |
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| A "Great Commission"? | |
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| Matthew and His Community | |
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| Contradictions in Matthew | |
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| Matthew and Israel | |
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| Matthew and "the Nations" | |
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| Key Notions in Matthew's Gospel | |
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| "Teaching Them to Observe All..." | |
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| The Sermon on the Mount | |
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| God's Reign and Justice-Righteousness | |
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| "Make Disciples ..." | |
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| Modelled on Jesus, and Yet... | |
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| Matthew's Paradigm: Missionary Discipleship | |
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| Luke-Acts: Practicing Forgiveness and Solidarity with the Poor | |
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| The Significance of Luke | |
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| Jew, Samaritan, and Gentile in Luke-Acts | |
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| The Difference between the Gospel and Acts | |
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| The Gentile Mission in Luke 4:16-30 | |
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| Encounters with Samaritans | |
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| Luke's "Great Commission " | |
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| The Jewishness of Luke | |
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| Jerusalem | |
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| To the Jews First, and to the Gentiles | |
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| The Division of Israel | |
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| A Tragic Story | |
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| Gospel for the Poor�And the Rich | |
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| The Poor in Luke's Gospel | |
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| And the Rich? | |
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| Jesus in Nazareth | |
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| Evangelist of the Rich? | |
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| All Are in Need of Repentance | |
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| Salvation in Luke-Acts | |
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| No More Vengeance! | |
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| The Inexplicable Volte-Face | |
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| Isaiah 61 in the First Century ad | |
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| Vengence Superseded! | |
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| The Lukan Missionary Paradigm | |
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| Mission in Paul: Invitation to Join the Eschatological Community | |
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| First Missionary: First Theologian | |
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| Paul's Conversion and Call | |
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| Paul's Missionary Strategy | |
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| Mission to the Metropolises | |
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| Paul and His Colleagues | |
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| Paul"s Apostolic Self-Consciousness | |
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| Paul's Missionary Motivation | |
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| A Sense of Concern | |
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| A Sense of Responsibility | |
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| A Sense of Gratitude | |
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| Mission and the Triumph of God | |
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| The Apocalyptic Paul | |
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| The Christian Church and Apocalyptic | |
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| Apocalyptic's New Center of Gravity | |
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| New Life in Christ | |
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| The Nations 'Pilgrimage to Jerusalem | |
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| Paul's Universalism | |
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| Apocalyptic and Ethics | |
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| The Law, Israel, and the Gentiles | |
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| Paul and Judaism | |
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| The Function of the Law | |
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| Unconditional Acceptance | |
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| The Problem of Unrepentant Israel | |
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| Romans 9-11 | |
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| The Church: The Interim Eschatological Community | |
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| Ekklesia in Paul | |
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| Baptism and the Transcending of Barriers | |
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| For the Sake of the World | |
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| The Pauline Missionary Paradigm | |
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| Historical Paradigms of Mission | |
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| Paradigm Changes in Missiology | |
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| Six Epochs | |
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| The Paradigm Theory of Thomas Kuhn | |
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| Paradigm Shifts in Theology | |
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| Paradigms in Missiology | |
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| The Missionary Paradigm of the Eastern Church | |
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| "To the Jew First but also to the Greek" | |
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| The Church and Its Context | |
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| The Church and the Philosophers | |
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| Eschatology | |
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| Gnosticism | |
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| The Church in Eastern Theology | |
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| Mission in Non-Roman Asia | |
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| The Patristic and Orthodox Missionary Paradigm | |
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| The First Paradigm Shift: An Interim Balance | |
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| The Medieval Roman Catholic Missionary Paradigm | |
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| Changed Context | |
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| The Individualization of Salvation | |
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| The Ecclesiasticization of Salvation | |
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| Mission between Church and State | |
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| Indirect and Direct "Missionary Wars" | |
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| Colonialism and Mission | |
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| The Mission of Monasticism | |
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| The Medieval Paradigm: An Appraisal | |
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| The Missionary Paradigm of the Protestant Reformation | |
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| The Nature of the New Movement | |
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| The Reformers and Mission | |
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| Lutheran Orthodoxy and Mission | |
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| The Pietist Breakthrough | |
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| Second Reformation and Puritanism | |
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| Ambivalences in the Reformation Paradigm | |
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| Mission in the Wake of the Enlightenment | |
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| Contours of the Enlightenment Worldview | |
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| Enlightenment and Christian Faith | |
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| ission in the Mirror of the Enlightenment | |
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| Church and State | |
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| Forces of Renewal | |
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| The Second Awakening | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Missionary Motifs in the Enlightenment Era | |
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| The Glory of God | |
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| "Constrained by Jesus 'Love"? | |
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| The Gospel and Culture | |
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| Mission and Manifest Destiny | |
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| Mission and Colonialism | |
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| Mission and the Millennium | |
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| Voluntarism | |
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| Missionary Fervor, Optimism, and Pragmatism | |
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| The Biblical Motif | |
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| Modern Missionary Motives and Motifs�A Profile | |
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| Toward a Relevant Missiology | |
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| The Emergence of a Postmodern Paradigm | |
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| The End of the Modern Era | |
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| The Challenge to the Enlightenment | |
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| The Expansion of Rationality | |
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| Beyond the Subject-Object Scheme | |
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| Rediscovery of the Teleological Dimension | |
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| The Challenge to Progress Thinking | |
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| A Fiduciary Framework | |
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| Chastened Optimism | |
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| Toward Interdependence | |
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| Mission in a Time of Testing | |
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| Elements of an Emerging Ecumenical Missionary Paradigm | |
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| Mission as the Church-With-Others | |
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| Church and Mission | |
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| Shifts in Missionary Thinking | |
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| "Missionary by Its Very Nature" | |
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| God's Pilgrim People | |
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| Sacrament, Sign, and Instrument | |
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| Church and Worl | |
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| Rediscovering the Local Church | |
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| Creative Tension | |
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| Mission as Missio Dei | |
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| Mission as Mediating Salvation | |
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| Traditional Interpretations of Salvation | |
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| Salvation in the Modern Paradigm | |
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| Crisis in the Modern Understanding of Salvation | |
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| Toward Comprehensive Salvation | |
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| Mission as the Quest for Justice | |
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| The Legacy of History | |
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| The Tension between Justice and Love | |
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| The Two Mandates | |
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| A Convergence of Convictions | |
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| Mission as Evangelism | |
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| Evangelism: A Plethora of Definitions | |
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| Toward a Constructive Understanding of Evangelism | |
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| Mission as Contextualization | |
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| The Genesis of Contextual Theology | |
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| The Epistemological Break | |
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| The Ambiguities of Contextualization | |
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| Mission as Liberation | |
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| From Development to Liberation | |
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| "God's Preferential Option for the Poor" | |
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| Liberal Theology and Liberation Theology | |
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| The Marxist Connection | |
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| Integral Liberation | |
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| Mission as Inculturation | |
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| The Vicissitudes of Accommodation and Indigenization | |
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| Twentieth-Century Developments | |
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| Toward Inculturation | |
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| The Limits of Inculturation | |
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| Interculturation | |
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| Mission as Common Witness | |
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| The (Re)birth of the Ecumenical Idea in Mission | |
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| Catholics, Mission, and Ecumenism | |
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| Unity in Mission; Mission in Unity | |
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| Mission as Ministry by the Whole People of God | |
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| The Evolution of the Ordained Ministry | |
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| The Apostolate of the Laity | |
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| Forms of Ministry | |
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| Mission as Witness to People of Other Living Faiths | |
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| The Shifting Scene | |
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| Postmodern Responses? | |
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| Dialogue and Mission | |
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| Mission as Theology | |
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| Mission Marginalized | |
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| From a Theology of Mission to a Missionary Theology | |
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| What Missiology Can and Cannot Do | |
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| Mission as Action in Hope | |
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| The "Eschatology Office" Closed | |
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| The Blurring of the Eschatological Horizon | |
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| The "Eschatology Office " Reopened | |
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| Extreme Eschatologization of Mission | |
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| History as Salvation | |
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| Eschatology and Mission in Creative Tension | |
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| Mission in Many Modes | |
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| Is Everything Mission? | |
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| Faces of the Church-in-Mission | |
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| Whither Mission? | |
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| Conclusion to the Anniversary Edition: The Continuing Transformation of Mission: David J. Bosch's Living Legacy: 1991-2011 | |
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| The Work and Life of David Jacobus Bosch | |
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| Beyond Biblical Foundations of Mission | |
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| Theology of Mission as the Mission of Theology | |
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| Africa and Other Contexts | |
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| After Christendom: Mission to the West and the Emergence of "Missional Theology" | |
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| Transforming the Study and Teaching of Mission | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Scriptural References | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Authors and Personal Names | |