The Missionary Movement from the West: A Biography from Birth to Old Age (Paperback)

Editor’s Introduction 
Foreword 
I. Birth and Early Years 
          1. The Birth of the Western Missionary Movement 
          2. Puritan and Pietist Origins: Jonathan Edwards and the Missionary Significance of Native America 
          3. A History and Geography of Christian Obedience: Early Protestant Foreign Mission Initiatives from Europe and America 
          4. “Honour All Men”: The Humanitarian Strand in Early Protestant Missions 
II. Towards the Middle Age of Western Missions 
          5. Reading the Bible: Theology and the Interpretation of Prophecy in Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions 
          6. Jerusalem and Antioch: Western Missions and non-Western Churches 
          7. "Made of One Blood:" Race, Culture, and Society in Western Mission Thinking 
          8. How Protestant Missionaries Got into China; and how China Got into the Missionaries 
III. Mid-Life Crises: Western Missions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 
          9. Protestant Missions Enter Middle Age 
          10. The World Missionary Conference and the First World War: Bright Visions, Dark Clouds, Hidden Happenings 
          11. The Missionary as Specialist: Healing and the Gospel 
          12. Before the Volcano Erupted: The Tambaram Meeting: Mission on the Eve of the Second World War 
IV. The Second World War and the Old Age of the Western Missionary Movement 
          13. The Seventh Chapter of Daniel Continued: The Legacy of World War II and the Birth of the Indian Nation 
          14. Red Sky at Night, Judgment of God? Missions and the China Experience 
          15. Winds of Change and Latter Rain: Christianity and the New African Nations 
          16. The Theological Challenge of World Christianity 
Bibliography 
Index