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What is mission? -- The whole-bible basis of mission -- New mission: a systematic reinterpretation of the concepts of mission -- The current conciliar theology of mission -- Conciliar perspectives: the road to reconceptualization -- Contemporary evangelical theology of mission -- Evangelicals find each other and join the debate -- Making doctrines missionarily effective and biblically correct -- Particular theologies and theology of mission -- Liberation theology bursts on the scene -- Papal advocates: Catholic mission theory to Vatican II -- Official Roman Catholic theology of mission: Ad Gentes -- Official Roman Catholic theology of mission: Lumen Gentium -- A paradigm shift? evangelicals and interreligious dialogue -- Religious freedom and theology of mission --