Foreword

Foreword

Foreword Vii

Preface ix

1 Dogma and Doubt in a Pluralist Culture 1

2 The Roots of Pluralism 14

3 Knowing and Believing 27

4 Authority, Autonomy, and Tradition 39

5 Reason, Revelation, and Experience 52

6 Revelation in History 66

7 The Logic of Election 80

8 The Bible as Universal History 89

9 Christ, the Clue to History 103

10 The Logic of Mission 116

11 Mission: Word, Deed, and New Being 128

12 Contextualization, True and False 141

13 No Other Name 155

14 The Gospel and the Religions 171

15 The Gospel and the Cultures 184

16 Principalities, Powers, and People 198

17 The Myth of the Secular Society 211

18 The Congregation as Hermeneutic of the Gospel 222

19 Ministerial Leadership for a Missionary Congregation 234

20 Confidence in the Gospel 242

Index of Subjects 245

Index of Names 249

Index of Scripture References 251

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