While honouring Steve Bevans, SVD, a towering figure in the field of missiology and a long-time author of Orbis books on missiology, this book is designed as a textbook for classroom use. It is organised around the three main foci of Bevans’ theology: mission, contextual theologies, and dialogical theory.

Contributors are a who’s who of contemporary mission studies in global context and represent various Christian traditions throughout the global church. They include Carolyn Chau, Gemma Tulud Cruz, José M de Mesa, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Leo D Lefebure, vãnThanh Nguyen, Thomas Franklin O’Meara, Athanasios N Papathanasiou, Robert Schreiter, Roger Schroeder, and Anh Q Tran.