Introduction

• A Window to the Whole

• The Nonnegotiable Call and the Unavoidable Lure

• Anticipating the Whole

Chapter 1   The Person in Created Function

• The Created Person

• The Person's Relationship with God

• Eve's Purpose

• Eve's Relationship with Adam

• Shifting Function

Chapter 2   Knowing the Whole of God

• The Face of This Triune God

• The Experience of Knowing

• Convergence with the Trinity

• The Relationship of God

• To Embrace and Experience

Chapter 3   Trinitarian Uniqueness in the Whole

• Function, Uniqueness, Subordination

• In Two Relational Contexts

• Subordination in Context

• Development of Trinitarian Views

• A Different Approach

• The Relational Significance of Jesus' Revelation

• The Reductionist Intrusion in the Process to Family

• The Relational Outcome of the Whole

Chapter 4   Placing Modernism and Postmodernism in the Larger Context
                of Reductionism

• Searching for the Whole

• The Shift to Substitutes

• Counter-Relational Work

• The Relational Implications

Chapter 5   The Church in Likeness of the Trinity

• Incompatibility of Church Practice

• Engaging the  Trinity

• The Relational Paradigm

• The Whole of the Relationship of God

• How the Church Is to Come Together

• The Spirit: Overlooked and Misused

• The Compatibility of Our Response

• In Function with the Divine Image of God

• The Relational Imperative of the Whole

• The Purpose of the Church as Family

• The Church Belonging to the Trinity

• The Alternative of Reductionism

Chapter 6   The Challenge of the Whole

• The Need for Redemptive Change

• Three Vital Aspects of Practice

• The Practice of Disciples: To Follow or to Serve

• The Practice of Church: Family or Orphanage

• Paul and the Whole

• Transitioning to the Whole

Chapter 7   Ecclesiology of the Whole

• Its Emergence
     The Apostolic Church and the Definitive Key

• Its Formulation
     Grace as the Functional Basis

• Its Operation
     Submission as the Functional Response
     Submission to Wholeness
     Equalizing to Be Whole

• The Church Becomes Equalizer

Chapter 8   Called to Be Whole

• The Work of Equalization

• Its Multicultural Nature

• Addressing Change from Without from Within

• Four Major Aspects to Multicultural Change

• Called Beyond the Common and Ordinary

• Sanctified Whole

Chapter 9   Gender in the Big Picture or a Reduced Context
                 (An Unavoidable Blessing for the Church as Equalizer)

• Distinguishing the Context

• What Matters Most to God

• How We Define Gender and How We Do Gender Relations

• Jesus' Response to "to be apart"

• The Need for Deeper Change

• Costs to Change and Reconciliation

• Where Our Expectations Are Rooted

Chapter 10   Sent to Be Whole

• The Context to Send Out

• Clarifying Some Terms

• God's Paradigm

• The Mindset of Repentance

• Incarnating the Incarnation

• Understanding Our Working Assumptions

• Jesus' Working Assumptions

• The Change of Redemptive Reconciliation

• The Church in Conjoint Function

Chapter 11   Nothing Less and No Substitutes

• Accountable for Wholeness

• Churches Today

• A Suggested Relational Conclusion

Scripture Index

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