Christian Mission by Dana L. Robert - 9780631236191

Christian MissionHow Christianity Became a World Religion\nAuthor(s): Dana L. Robert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9780631236191, 978-0631236191\nSynopsis\nCHRISTIAN MISSION Dana Robert distils a quarter of a century of her research into an erudite and accessible single-volume account of how Christianity became the largest religious tradition in the world. There is no better place for any reader to start becoming informed about this important subject. David Hempton, Harvard University Remarkable for the range and depth of the material Robert is able to pack into so short a book. Reliable and readable, it is especially valuable for its treatment of the relation between western and non-western missionary activity. David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley Dana Roberts richly textured book shows us that the history of Christian missions is far from being merely a European colonial story, and will .