Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology

Abstract

A review essay of John G. Flett and Henning Wrogemann, Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology. This work is a carefully selected and edited collection of German mission writing of roughly the past century. The texts selected address mission contextualization, that is, ecumenical interactions among different sectors of World Christianities as they pertain to mission. Together the readings, along with the editors’/authors’ commentary, show the history and content of German missiological approach(es) to contextualized mission. As such, it is a textbook appropriate for courses in the theology of mission, religious pluralism, intercultural theology, and World Christianity.