History of Missions

London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jewish People

The evangelisation of the Jewish people continues to be a controversial area of Christian missions. The London Society For Promoting…

6 years ago

Missions and Modern History by Robert E. Speer

Robert E. Speer sets out his threefold purpose in writing this history of 19th Century missions: To correct distortions of…

6 years ago

Snapshot of China and Chinese Missions from 1907

This is an extremely detailed province-by-province survey of Chinese life and the progress of Christian missions there up to 1907.…

6 years ago

Spiritual Renewal and Advance in the Eighteenth Century by Arthur Skevington Wood

Arthur Skevington Wood's contribution to the Paternoster Church History series, The Inextinguishable Blaze: Spiritual Renewal and Advance in the Eighteenth…

6 years ago

History of the Church Missionary Society by Eugene Stock – 4 Vols

Eugene Stock's comprehensive History of the Church Missionary Society runs to 2,740 pages and 4 Volumes. My thanks to the…

6 years ago

Missions in India from AD 193-1893 by George Smith

George Smith sets out to provide a history of Christian Missions in India from the time of Pantaenus (one of…

7 years ago

Our Empire’s Debt to Missions by James N. Ogilvie

The relationship of the British Empire with Christian missions is a subject that is often discussed. Anyone tasked with an…

7 years ago

Arthur T. Pierson’s New Acts of the Apostles

Arthur T. Pierson's contribution to the Duff Missionary Lectureship series compares the missionary activities of the 19th Century church to…

7 years ago

Warneck’s Outline of a History of Protestant Missions

Gustav Warneck [1834-1910] provides an overview of Protestant missions from the Reformation to the end of the 19th Century. Part…

7 years ago

A.T. Pierson’s The Crisis of Missions or The Voice Out of the Cloud

Walter Elwell notes that Arthur T. Pierson [1837-1911] was "[h]ailed as the greatest populizer of missions of his age and…

7 years ago