Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index.

Part I. Theology and mission in dialogue. 1. A missional approach to Scripture for the theological task / Michael W. Goheen -- 2. Widening the frame of redemptive history: a response to Michael Goheen -- 3. More Scripture, please! A Protestant approach to appropriating tradition for theology today / Bradley G. Green -- 4. A missiological appropriation of tradition: a response to Brad Green / Paul Weston -- 5. Doing theology for the Church's mission: the appropriation of culture / Kirsteen Kim -- 6. A theology of culture for the missionary task: a response to Kirsteen Kim / Daniel Strange -- Part II. Assessing the shape of theology and mission in dialogue. 7. Theology, Bible, and mission / Mark Elliott -- 8. Doing theology for the Church's mission: a historian's perspective / Brian Stanley -- 9. Seeing and believing / Pete Ward -- 10. Confessing evangelical theology in dynamic public spaces / Jason S. Sexton -- Part III. The practice of shaping theology for mission. 11. The widening of Christian mission: C. René Padilla and the intellectual origins of integral mission/ David C. Kirkpatrick -- 12. Embodiment as social healing between the Church and LGBT community / Andrew Marin -- 13. Pioneering mission for the Church's theology / Jonny Baker -- 14. Adopting a new theological paradigm for doing theology for the Church's mission / Krish Kandiah -- Afterword / Christopher J.H. Wright.