Introduction - setting the context, the rationale, definition and scope. Part 1 Religion and the cultural project - an examination of thought and action: introduction; the cultural critique; magic in the Renaissance; enlightenment and romantic views; modern attitudes; culture crisis - truth and value; theological issues. Part 2 "They Stooped to Conquer" - cultural vitality and the indigenous impulse: introduction; the African crucible; historical precedents; "It is in us, it is in the blood"; conclusions. Part 3 Gospel and culture - theological and religious reflections: introduction; positive force of gospel and culture; negative force; theology and the cultural frontline; vernacular cultures under the gospel. Part 4 Religious insiders and cultural outsiders or religious outsiders and cultural insiders? the inter-cultural critique: introduction; the nationalist critique; the missionary critique; the inter-cultural critique; religion and plausibility structures; world christianity and western self-understanding; historical purpose and the nation state; the witness of reason; retreat from mission; cross-culture dimensions. part 5 Religious agnostics and cultural believers - the lost trails of christendom: introduction; the church and its territorial shell; the voluntary realm; mision and the separation of church and state; neo-orthodoxy and counter-culture; colonalism, christendom and mission; secularism - left and right; cross-cultural encounter; pax-Islamica as territoriality; territorialty and domestic enclavement; issues; concluding note. Part 6 The garden of Eden without the snake? - the moral sting in the cultural tale - some conclusions: western encounter; cultural innocence; cultural mutality, moral relativism; tacit language, bible translation; translation, colonialism and ethnology.
