This one-volume history of Christian missions is, in one sense, comprehensive. Neill’s grandparents and parents had served as missionaries in India, bequeathing to him an insider’s knowledge of missionary life and work, which he augmented by serving in India with the Church Missionary Society for twenty years. His narrative reads like a story rather than a mere chronicle.
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Read MoreHattaway calls Shandong “The Revival Province,” because it has witnessed so many massive turnings to God, often spilling over into other parts of China. Other provinces have more Christians and a greater percentage of Christians, but none has witnessed revivals as Shandong has.
Read MoreThough published more than twenty years ago, this massive compendium of information remains an essential resource for all students of Christian missions, world Christianity, and world history.
Read MoreWhat can explain the explosion of Christianity in China, despite the apparently insurmountable obstacles of the Cultural Revolution and virtually insignificant number of believers in previous centuries? Builders of the Chinese Church answers this question by examining the lives of nine evangelical leaders: seven Western missionaries and two Chinese pastors.
Read MoreLi Ma’s Religious Entrepreneurism is a dense, complex monograph about a very complicated series of events centering upon a person with many sides to his character and conduct. Though this book contains some useful information and insightful analysis, it is fundamentally flawed, misleading, and of limited value for students of Chinese Christianity.
Read MoreChristians in the West are curious about believers in China, after decades of knowing theirs as a “closed country.” The newly released book, Grace to the City: Studies in the Gospel from China, is a window into the ministries of a handful of Chinese church leaders through their teaching on God’s Word.
Read MoreThis is an outstanding book, of great usefulness to anyone wanting to understand the immense changes that took place in the twentieth century. It is also a marvel of conciseness: Sunquist packs an enormous amount of information and analysis into less than 200 pages.
Read MorePaul Hattaway has given us a major contribution to the history of the church in China, based on extensive reading and personal interviews with key characters in the story.
Read MoreNoted historian on the subject of World Christianity, Scott Sunquist has given us another outstanding volume. He possesses both a wide knowledge of the Christian movement’s history as a whole and a comprehensive grasp of Christian missions in all its dimensions.
Read MoreChinese scholar Lit-sen Chang writes this work post conversion to persuade Westerners in particular to reject the folly of Eastern religions in favor of the Christian gospel.
Read MoreThe latest volume in the Global China Series, Studies in Chinese Christianity has just been released! The stories of these ordinary yet exceptional women deserve to be told to a new generation.
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