Part I: Shaped by the past
1. Before the beginnings
Questions and presuppositions
The ferment of the eighteenth century
Enlightenment's reappraisal of paganism
rationalist studies of the development of religions and cultures
The end of the beginning
2. Consciousness One
The warfare metaphor
Shared concerns of anthropology and theology
Anthropology's part in the formation of consciousness One
Evangelicalism's response: Apprehension
Shared characteristics of consciousness one
3. Consciousness Two
The revised agenda
Anthropology's new mood: Revision
Anthropological and theological concerns in consciousness two
Evangelical theology's response: Retrenchment
Shared characteristics of consciousness two
Part II: Challenged by the present
4. Converging streams for a new wave
A new situation
A new partner: Missionary anthropology
A new agenda: Ethnology
5. Perilous currents in the tide
Overextension of models
Syncretism
Provincialism
Part III: Reaching for the future
6. Theology and theologizing: A new course
Winds of change
The missiological call for new directions in theology
Criteria for doing theology
7. Theological education
Looking for new models
History of the current discussions
Wester concepts of ministry
Biblical focal points of renewal
8. WHere do we go from here?
An agenda for consciousness three
Paradigm and worldview
Myth and symbolism
Relativism