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| Contents |
History of maritime mission -- Early/premodern era (until 1920) -- Pre-organizational phase (c. 30-1779) -- Biblical foundations (c. 30-70) -- Earlier endeavors (70-1779) -- The set time -- British formative phase (1779-1864) -- The bethel movement -- New configurations -- American formative phase (1812-1864) -- From Boston to Shanghai -- Old salts and sailor missionaries -- Transitional phase (1864-1920) -- Continental expansion -- Programmatic change -- Ecumenical/modern era (1920-1974) -- Catholic regeneration : AOS (1920) -- Pre-history of a New Apostolate -- The Anson era (1920-1924) -- The Gannon era (1924-1961) -- Protestant consolidation : Namma (1932) -- The North American scene -- Nationally oriented maritime ministry -- British maritime ministry -- Ecumenical collaboration : ICMA (1969) -- Renewal in Rome -- Repercussions in Rotterdam -- Global/postmodern era (from 1974) -- The shipping revolution -- Technology and trade -- Current-day ship types -- The downside of deregulation -- Whatever happened to the seafarer? -- The prophetic challenge -- Ethnic revolution at sea -- The seafarers rights movement -- The discipleship challenge -- Religious pluralism and human rights -- A partnership paradigm from below -- The quest for implementation -- Other current challenges -- Indigenization : new partners -- Transformation : a changing west -- Other current challenges (continued) -- Integration : all people of the sea -- Cooperation : other organizations -- Education : tools for maritime ministry -- The end of the beginning -- Overview of maritime mission -- Theoretical foundations -- Motives for maritime mission -- Dimensions of maritime mission -- Practical aspects -- Impediments to maritime mission -- Strategies for maritime mission -- Summary : the wave of the future -- Perspectives on maritime mission -- Miriam Adeney : dancing with the elephant -- António Barbosa da Silva : religious pluralism in the maritime world -- Thomas batong: maritime ministry and maritime ecology -- William Choi : multi-cultural communication -- David Cockroft : maritime industry and maritime ministry -- Barbara Crafton : holding onto justice and hope -- James Dillenburg : the apostleship of the sea -- William R. Douglas : a mariners voice -- Stephen Friend : the role of research in maritime ministry -- Jacques Harel : ecumenicity in the maritime world -- He Qi : art, the gospel and the sea -- Paul Hiebert : worldviews and nomads of the sea -- Tom Holmer : the seafarers trust -- Peter Iibrahim : out of Africa -- Buzz Kahn : seafaring disciplesthen and now -- Ruth Kverndal : the scourge of addiction -- Karen Lai : shipvisiting and follow-up -- Per Lönning : the challenge of fundamentalism -- Efthimios Mitropoulos : shipping and the human element -- Kjell Nordstokke : the diaconal dimension -- Kjell Bertel Nyland : maritime mission and nationality -- James Ohalloran : small Christian communities -- Carl Osterwald : hope regained -- Irette Ramoelinina : women on the waterfront -- Ricardo Rodriquez-Martos Dauer : the merchant ship -- Helen Sampson : seafarers international research centre -- Darrell Schoen : living temples at sea -- Anita Trondsen Spilling : oilrig chaplaincy -- Douglas Stevenson : seafarers and justice -- Gérard Tronche : ministry among fishers -- Desmond Tutu : truth and reconciliation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-408) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007030393 |
| ISBN | 9780878083664 |
| ISBN | 0878083669 |
