"In one blow this stout book replaces all previous vague, brief, and seriously erroneous summaries of the origins of missions in America . . . a definitive trea

A long-awaited culmination of scholarship by a pioneer of missiology and global Christianity The history of the missions is complex and fraught. Though modern m

Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This