Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviation Note -- 1 Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West -- The Book: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society -- The Conference -- This Book -- 2 Newbigin in His Time -- Student Christian Movement -- India -- IMC Tambaram Assembly 1938 -- Training for Ministry in India -- Church Union -- Lesslie Newbigin as Bishop -- The Household of God -- Interlude -- Unfinished Agenda -- The Gospel in a Pluralist Society -- 3 Newbigin's Theology of Mission and Culture After Twenty-Five Years: Attending to the "Subject" of Mission -- Encounters with Newbigin -- Post-Vatican II Catholicism and Newbigin -- Newbigin's Central Orientation -- Newbigin, Mission and Christianity as Christomorphic -- Newbigin and Aggiornamento -- A Catholic Appreciation of Newbigin's Theology of Mission -- Toward an Inconclusive Conclusion -- 4 Community and Witness in Transition: Newbigin's Missional Ecclesiology Between Modernity and Postmodernity -- Introduction: Setting Newbigin in the Context of Postmodernism -- Newbigin's View of Postmodernity -- Missional Response to the Culture in Transition Between Modernity and Late Modernity -- In Lieu of Conclusion: Seedthought for Further Reflections -- 5 Holistic Theological Method and Theological Epistemology: Performing Newbigin's Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context -- Newbigin's Theological Method -- Theological Epistemology -- Performing Newbigin's Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context -- 6 Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture -- Homogeneity: "The Specter at the Banquet of Modernity" -- Perichoresis -- Tracing over the Polanyian Lines in Newbigin -- SFI and IFMs: Polanyian Epistemology and Its Respect for the Other -- Covenant Epistemology -- Implications for Church and Mission -- Conclusion.

7 Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century -- The Spirit and Mission Theology: Expanding Newbigin's Reach -- Pentecost and Modern Science/Technology: Toward a Pneumatological Missiology -- 8 Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision -- Newbigin's Diagnosis of Evangelism in the West -- The Message -- The Messenger -- The Method -- Equipping the Messenger for the Method -- A Model for Evangelistic Equipping Using Newbigin's Embassy Framework -- 9 What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic? -- The Background Problem -- Hermeneutic as Visibility -- "Special Visibility" and the Question of History -- History and Mission -- Six Characteristics of the Church as Hermeneutic of the Gospel -- Conclusion -- 10 Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism -- What Christianity Has to Offer Pluralistic Asia -- What Pluralistic Asia Has to Offer Christianity -- Lesslie Newbigin on Asian Pluralism -- The Future of Asian Theology -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West -- Chapter 2: Newbigin in His Time -- Chapter 3: Newbigin's Theology of Mission and Culture After Twenty-Five Years: Attending to the "Subject" of Mission -- Chapter 4: Community and Witness in Transition: Newbigin's Missional Ecclesiology Between Modernity and Postmodernit -- Chapter 5: Holistic Theological Method and Theological Epistemology: Performing Newbigin's Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context -- Chapter 6: Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture -- Chapter 7: Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century -- Chapter 8: Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision -- Chapter 9: What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?.

Chapter 10: Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism -- Index -- Praise for The Gospel and Pluralism Today -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Missiological Engagements -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press -- Copyright.