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 Go from Here? -- 2. Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Development of the Chinese Church -- Missions and Imperialism, 1807-1911 -- Missions and Culture, 1911-1949 -- Gospel and Social Change, 1950s- Present -- On Contextual Theologies, 1980s-Present -- 3. Overcoming Missions Guilt -- Introduction -- 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 God -- Holy 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 Soteriology -- Boundaries 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 Truth -- Culture 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.