The product of an international team of theologians, historians, and missiologists, this "Dictionary of Mission" contains more than 100 articles on every essential aspect of Christian world mission, written by noted experts from every part of the globe.
Susan E. Smith provides a comprehensive history of mission that highlights the critical contributions of women, as well as the theological developments that influenced their role. Beginning with an examination of the New Testament, she goes on to review the long period between the apostolic church and the Second Vatican Council.
These eleven essays originally delivered as the annual Louis J. Luzbetak Lectures at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago focus on the relationship between mission and culture. The authors include missiologists Jose M. de Mesa, Darrell L. Whiteman, Aylward Shorter, John Kirby, and Angelyn Dries; anthropolgists Linda E. Thomas, Anthony J. Gittens, and Philip Gibbs; and theologians Gemma T. …