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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE. INTRODUCTION AND THE TRIANGLE -- Introduction / Keith J. White -- The triangle: theology, mission and child / Haddon Willmer -- PART TWO. CILD IN THEOLOGICAL AND MISSIOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- The many and the one: theology, mission and child in historical perspective / D.J. Konz -- Christian mission: contemporary theology and practice with reference to children / Mark Oxbrow -- PART THREE. THREATS AND CHALLENGES -- The mission of Christ in Luke 4: 18-19, HIV?AIDS and abuse of the girl child in the context of Botswana / Rosinah Gabaitse -- Recovering a gospel of love through children: shattering faith, knowledge and justice / Stephan de Beer and Genevieve James -- The disturbance of God, holistic mission and children in crisis: lessons from a study of partnership in Romania / Bill Prevette -- PART FOUR. THE HINGE: CROSS AND RESURRECTION -- Theology, mission and child under the shadow of the cross and in the light of the resurrection / Keith J. White and Haddon Willmer -- PART FIVE. SIGNS OF LIFE AND HOPE -- The whole household of God: how children can deepen our theology and practice of missional ecclesiology / Paul Joshua Bhakiaraj -- Welcome: Biblical and theological perspectives on mission and hospitality with a child in the midst / Corneliu Constantineanu -- Identities: theology, mission and child in the upside-down kingdom / John Baxter-Brown -- Recovering hope and the formation of children: a theological critique of institutions / Sam E. Ewell and C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell -- PART SIX. BROADER HORIZONS AND CONTINUING CHALLENGES -- Learning to be neighbours and discovering incarnation in the "valley" / David Chronic -- The child of the Favela and Christ of Luke 9: 46-48 / Stuart Christine -- Faith formation in an inter-faith world: passing on the faith to children amidst the realities of religious pluralism / Marcia J. Bunge -- The call of Christ, the call of the child / Elizabeth Waldron Barnett.