Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I The theological dimension
The faith of a social Anthropologist -- The Bible as a frame of reference -- Mankind in context -- The florescence of the fellowship: missiological ecclesiology -- The holy spirit and responsive populations -- Church growth theology and current debate -- Trends in the theology of mission --

Part II The Anthropological dimension
Anthropology: Luxury or necessity for missions? -- Changes in anthropological orientation and their bearing on missiology -- The negative and positive value of anthropology to the missionary -- Anthropological processual models in missiology -- Salvation and cultural identity -- Patterns of religious change in communal society -- The functional substitute in church planting -- Urban and industrial situations: a Solomon islands case study --

Part III The historical dimension
The church's confrontation with the world -- The themes of the church -- "Contours of reality" in the history of mission -- Testing history by church growth theory: people movements of the middle ages -- A statement on the use of documents: the complexity of the conversion of the Tahitians -- Contemporary departures from traditional Christianity in cross-cultural situations: a Melanesian ethnohistorical case study -- Ethnic cohesion and the acceptance of cultural change: an Indonesian Ethnohistorical case study --

Part IV The practical dimension: a cluster of missiological problems
The missionary problem of "meaning" -- Problems of power encounter -- The evangelization of Animists -- Polygamy as a missionary problem: the anthropological issues -- Shifting attitudes to sex and marriage: an example from Fiji -- Static churches -- Membership shrinkage -- The dynamics of the bicultural church -- Indigenous principles in mission today -- Missionary go home? --

Part V Retrospect and prospect
Retrospect: a personal narrative -- Prospect: the relevance of missiology --