Part I: Shaped by the past -- 1. Before the beginnings -- Questions and presuppositions -- The ferment of the eighteenth century -- Enlightenment's reappraisal of paganism -- rationalist studies of the development of religions and cultures -- The end of the beginning -- 2. Consciousness One -- The warfare metaphor -- Shared concerns of anthropology and theology -- Anthropology's part in the formation of consciousness One -- Evangelicalism's response: Apprehension -- Shared characteristics of consciousness one -- 3. Consciousness Two -- The revised agenda -- Anthropology's new mood: Revision -- Anthropological and theological concerns in consciousness two -- Evangelical theology's response: Retrenchment -- Shared characteristics of consciousness two -- Part II: Challenged by the present -- 4. Converging streams for a new wave -- A new situation -- A new partner: Missionary anthropology -- A new agenda: Ethnology -- 5. Perilous currents in the tide -- Overextension of models -- Syncretism -- Provincialism -- Part III: Reaching for the future -- 6. Theology and theologizing: A new course -- Winds of change -- The missiological call for new directions in theology -- Criteria for doing theology -- 7. Theological education -- Looking for new models -- History of the current discussions -- Wester concepts of ministry -- Biblical focal points of renewal -- 8. WHere do we go from here? -- An agenda for consciousness three -- Paradigm and worldview -- Myth and symbolism -- Relativism.