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<p>Acknowledgments<br />
Abbreviation Note<br />
1. Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West<br />
Scott W. Sunquist<br />
2. Newbigin in His Time<br />
Wilbert R. Shenk<br />
3. Newbigin?s Theology of Mission and Culture After Twenty-Five Years: Attending to the &quot;Subject&quot; of Mission<br />
William R. Burrows<br />
4. Community and Witness in Transition: Newbigin?s Missional Ecclesiology Between Modernity and Postmodernity<br />
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Michael Karim<br />
5. Holistic Theological Method and Theological Epistemology: Performing Newbigin?s Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context<br />
Steven B. Sherman<br />
6. Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture<br />
Esther L. Meek<br />
7. Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century<br />
Amos Yong<br />
8. Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision<br />
Carrie Boren Headington<br />
9. What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?<br />
John G. Flett<br />
10. Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism<br />
Allen Yeh<br />
Contributors<br />
Index</p>

Amos Yong (PhD, Boston University) is professor of theology and mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author or editor of over two dozen books, including Spirit of Love: A Trinitarian Theology of Grace, Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture (coedited with Estrelda Alexander), Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences (coedited with James K. A. Smith) and The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology.Yong is a member of the the American Academy of Religion, the Christian Theological Research Fellowship, and the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is also a licensed minister with the General Council of the Assemblies of God.

Scott W. Sunquist (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is a professor and dean at the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Previously, he taught missiology and Christian history at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and also lectured as a Presbyterian missionary at Trinity Theological College in Singapore.Writing frequently about Asian Christianity, global Christianity, and missiology, Sunquist is the editor of A Dictionary of Asian Christianity, co-author of A History of the World Christian Movement, Volume I and Volume II, and co-editor of a volume of A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2006, with his daughter. More recently, he is the author of an introduction to the study of mission, Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory, and a history of twentieth-century global Christianity, The Unexpected Christian Century: The Reversal and Transformation of Global Christianity, 1900-2000.