The Evangelization of the World

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface by the Translator

Author’s Postscript to the French Edition

Introduction

Book I: THE HISTORY OF MISSION THROUGH THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Section I The Church of the First Centuries

1. Apostolic Mission: From the Ascension to the End of the First Century

2. The Mission of the Persecuted Church:From the Apostle John to Constantine (100–313)

3. Evangelization in the Fourth Century: The Imperial Church and Expansion Beyond the Roman Empire

Section II Mission in the Middle Ages

4. The West: From the Fifth to the Eighth Century.

5. Islam and the Decline of Christianity in the East

6. The Last Step in the Expansion of the Church in Europe: From the Ninth to the Tenth Century

7. The Churches of the East and West Confronted by Islam

8. The Extension of the Church beyond Europe (400–1450)

Section III Catholic Mission: From the Renaissance through the Eighteenth Century

9. New Horizons in Europe

10. Catholic Mission in the Americas

11. Catholic Mission in Africa

12. Catholic Mission in Asia and Oceania

Section IV The Emergence of Protestant Mission

13. Protestant Missionary Thought

14. The Beginnings of Protestant Mission

15. The First Missionary Societies (1670–1800)

16. The Moravians

Book II: A  CONCISE HISTORY OF MISSIONS FROM 1792 to 1945

Introduction to Book II

Section I The Birth of the Principal Protestant Societies in the Age of Modern Missions

1. Precursors and Founders

2. The Missionary Societies of the “Second Wave”

Section II Protestant Mission in Asia

3. William Carey: “Father of Modern Missions”

4. Protestant Missions in India and Neighboring Countries

5. Protestant Pioneers in China: Robert Morrison and Karl Gutzlaff

6. Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission

7. Protestant Missions in the Far East

Section III The Evangelization of the Pacific Islands

8. Tahiti and the Society Islands

9. Two Pioneers of the Pacific: John Williams and John Paton

10. The Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia

Section IV The Evangelization of Africa

Part One: Southern Africa

11. The First Missionaries in South Africa

12. David Livingstone: Missionary and Explorer

13. Francois Coillard: Founder of the Zambezi Mission

Part Two: West Africa

14. Dramatic Beginnings

15. A Self-supporting Church

16. Coastal Regions of West Africa

17. The Ivory Coast

18. Protestant Mission and the Foundation of the Church in Cameroon

19. The Sudanese Regions

Part Three : Central Africa and Madagascar

20. The Belgian Congo: Exploration, Evangelization, and Foundation of a Church

21. An African Prop het: Simon Kimbangu

22. The Pioneers in the Region of the Great Lakes

23. The Horn of Africa

24. French Equatorial Africa

25. Angola

26. Madagascar

Part Four: North Africa and the Near East

27. Evangelistic Presence in the Maghreb and Egypt

28. The Gospel in the Near East

Section V Protestant Mission in Latin America

29. From Protestant Immigration to Evangelization

30. Development of Protestant Missions in Latin America

Section VI Concluding Points

31. Protestant Mission and Colonization

32. The World Missionary Conferences

Afterword

Bibliography

Index