This long-awaited second volume of Professor Moffett's much-acclaimed history of Christianity in Asia illustrates the advance of the modern missionary movement in the continent of its birth. Like the first volume it makes available immense amounts of research in a readable and engaging narrative, providing a rich and compelling story that has long been overlooked. The four centuries this volume treats are years of great missionary outreach, and ambiguous results. Moffett's eye brings into dramatic relief events that illustrate both the broad patterns and the vital details of the spread of Christianity on a continent with more and deeper cultural differences than any other. A History of Christianity in Asia will stand for years to come as one of the most important resources of its kind - invaluable for historians and students of Asia, scholars of mission, and stimulating for all readers interested in Christian history.

Westerrn Christians assume all of church history occured in Europe. But God was mightily at work in the East as well. I must read this book a second time. ( )