Contens Preface ...................................................................................................... 9 “Towards an Ecumenical Missiology” ...................................................... 11 Africa Paul Bere The Paradoxical Christ “A Stumbling Block toJews, and Folly to Gentiles” (1 Cor 1:23) .............. 23 Timothee Bouba Mbima Promoting an Ecumenical Missiology A Christological Approach according to the African Context .................. 33 Faith Lugazia Is Christ a King What can be an African Response in Witnessing to Jesus Christ Today? .. 41 North America Stephen Bevans Ecumenical Christology for Mission Implications from US American Roman Catholic Perspectives ............... 51 J.Jayakiran Sebastian Estranging the Stranger? Revisions and Re-visioning Ecumenical Missiology ................................. 63 Petros G. Malakyan Witnessing the Contemporaneity ofChrist in the Contemporary World Towards an Ecumenical Missiology through Christ-likeness - A North American Perspective ................................................................ 71 Middle East Wilbert van Saane Christology and Mission in the Middle East ............................................. 85 Martin Accad Towards an Ecumenical Missiology from the Arab Middle East Witnessing Christ ...................................................................................... 93 Europe Margit Eckholt Jesus Christ - “Light ofAll Nations” Traces ofChristological work in Germany from a Roman Catholic perspective and new paths for a Christology that is dedicated to the promotion of peace ............................................................................. 103 Lisanne Teuchert Three approaches to Christology in European mainstream Protestantism and their implications for Missiology ............................... 119 Johannes Reimer Christ at the Center Eastern European Evangelical perspectives on Witnessing Christ .......... 127 Asia Samuel George Towards an Ecumenical Christology An Asian (Indian) Pentecostal Perspective ............................................... 139 Ambrose Mong Asian Portrayal ofJesus: the Avatar ......................................................... 154 Septemmy E. Lakawa The Theopoetics ofthe Cross Trauma and Poetic Witnessing from an Asian Feminist Perspective ...... 165 Latin Amerika Olga Consuelo Velez Caro Latin American Christologies at Present .................................................. 179 Ruth Padilla DeBorst Witnessing the worker Christ in Abya Yala .............................................. 189 Oceania Arthur Leger The Talanoa about Oceanian Christology ................................................. 201 Reflections Marina Ngursangzeli Behera, Elzbieta Adamiak, Markus Grofimann, Paul Dibudi Way-Way Listeners’ Report ...................................................................................... 215 Dana Buchholz, Dorothee Marks Student Reflection - Does “my” context allow me to really understand an ecumenical “other”? ........................................................................... 223 Michael Biehl The many faces ofJesus Christ ................................................................. 225 ClaudiaJahnel Vulnerable, political, transnational Characteristic features ofmission in the discipleship ofJesus ................ 227 TraugottHopp ............................................................................................ 231 Michael Kisskalt Contextual Christology in Dialogue - Potential and Limitations Comments on the conference “Towards an Ecumenical Missiology - Witnessing Christ” ................................................................................... 233 Hanna Stahl Laudate omnes gentes, laudate Dominum Remarks on the conference “Towards an Ecumenical Missiology - Witnessing Christ” ................................................................................... 235 Klaus Vellguth Ifthe Universal Church presented itself as a Community ofLearning, Solidarity and Prayer Comments on the ecumenical missiology conference “Towards an Ecumenical Missiology - Witnessing Christ” ...................... 239 Contributors ............................................................................................. 245