Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1. Whole world -- Globalization: mission in a reconfigured world -- Post-Christendom: decentered church and multidirectional mission -- Postcolonialism: postcolonial mission or bust -- Part 2. Whole gospel -- On false and half gospels -- Gospel of the kingdom: the reconciliation of all things -- Part 3. Whole church -- Whole persons: reconciliation beginning with me -- Church of the Trinity: community, diversity, and reconciliation -- Spirituality of mission: the church in the power of the spirit -- Part 4. Whole mission -- Word and deed: the greatness of the Great Commission -- Reconciliation and the Great Commission: peacemaking as mission, part 1 -- Reconciliation and the Great Commission: peacemaking as mission, part 2.

The ministry of reconciliation is the new whole in holistic ministry. It must be if the Christian mission is to remain relevant in our increasingly fractured world. This book offers a fresh treatment of holistic ministry that takes the role of reconciliation seriously, rethinking the meaning of the gospel, the nature of the church, and the practice of mission in light of globalization, post-Christendom, and postcolonialism. It also includes theological and practical resources for effectively engaging in evangelism, compassion and justice, and reconciliation ministries. Includes a foreword by Ruth Padilla DeBorst and an afterword by Ronald J. Sider. -- ‡c From publisher's description.