A history of the expansion of Christianity reconsidered : assessing Christian progress and decline -- Christianity in the non-Western world : a study in the serial nature of Christian expansion -- From Christendom to world Christianity : missions and the demographic transformation of the church -- The Ephesian moment : at a crossroads in Christian history -- Africa in Christian history : retrospect and prospect -- African Christianity in the history of religions -- Africa as the theatre of Christian engagement with Islam in the nineteenth century -- Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891) : patterns of African Christianity in the nineteenth century -- The significance of Harry Sawyerr -- Carrying the white man's burden : some British views of the national vocation in the imperial era -- The Protestant missionary awakening in its European context -- The missionary movement : a lay fiefdom? -- The multiple conversions of Timothy Richard : a paradigm of missionary experience -- The Scottish missionary diaspora -- Missiologist of the road : David Jacobus Bosch (1929-1992).