Includes bibliographical references.

Front cover ; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. Modern Evangelicalism and Global Christian Identity; What is an Evangelical?; The Rise of the Modern Evangelical Movement; Western Missions, Other Cultures, and the Challenge of Contextualizing Evangelicalism; The Chinese Situation; Where Do We Gofrom Here?; 2. Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Development of the Chinese Church; Missions andImperialism, 1807-1911; Missions and Culture, 1911-1949; Gospel and Social Change, 1950s-Present; On Contextual Theologies, 1980s-Present.

3. Overcoming Missions GuiltIntroduction; Context in China:The Arrival of Protestant Missions; Robert Morrison: The First Protestant Missionary; Liang Fa: The First Ordained Chinese Minister; The 1840 Opium War; Conclusion; 4. Chinese Evangelicals and Social Concerns; 5. The Old Testament in Its Cultural Context; Introduction; Non-Contextual Exegesis and Its Results; In the Academy; In the Church; Dangers Posed by Agenda-Driven Contextual Study; Contextual Criticism; Literary (Textual) Environment; Material Cultural (Archaeological) Environment; Geographic Environment; Conclusion.

6. "Holy War" and the Universal GodHoly War in the Old Testament; The Five Phases of Holy War; Reflecting on the Ethics of Holy War; 7. "Holy War" and the Universal God; "Holy War" and Modern Missionary Movements; Conquest Narratives in the New Testament; Conquest, Power, and Subversion; God and His Word as the Ultimate Warrior; Theological and Political Imperialism; Writing from the Margin; Prophetic Self-Critique; Beyond "the Colonized" and "the Colonizers""; 8. The Group and the Individual in Salvation; 9. Boundaries in "In-Christ Identity"; Introduction; Galatians 2: Freedom in Christ.

Christology and SoteriologyBoundaries in "In-Christ Identity"; Romans 14:1-15:13: Christ as the Same Lord; Christology and Soteriology; Boundaries in "In-Christ Identity"; 1 Corinthians 8-10: Christ as One Lord; Christology and Soteriology; Boundaries in "In-Christ Identity"; Conclusions; 10. "Who Am I?"; 11. Chinese Contextual Theology; Introduction; Listening from the Past ; Jewish Diaspora in Pre-Modern China: Community in Kaifeng; Jesuits in Pre-Modern China; Islam in Pre-Modern China; A Preliminary Comment; The Bible and Cultural Identity; Hermeneutical Methodology.

The Bible as Divine Discourse and Propositional TruthCulture as Works and Worlds of Meaning; Sapientia as the World of Wisdom; Christology as the Basis of Triangulation; Conclusion; 12. Forging Evangelical Identity; Portraying the Global Context; Caught in the Middle; Back to the Basics for Evangelical Identity; Theological Education for the Church; An Integrated Model for the Global Context; Restoring Piety in the Loss of Inwardness; Theological Education with a Missional Orientation; A Prophetic Critique of Culture; Back cover.

This collection of essays is committed to the belief that evangelicalism continues to have the historical assets and intellectual (hermeneutical and theological) tools able to contribute to the global church.

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