Darkest before the Dawn is a major contribution to the study of Christianity in China and a significant academic treatment to this vastly important subject as the author uses secular and Christian history, personal notes, questions, and interactions with students to crate a very readable guide.
Book Review - The Registered Church in China: Flourishing in a Challenging Environment
Book Review - The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China
I would highly recommend this book as an initial text on the history of Christian missions in China, an introduction to longer and more comprehensive works. As such, it is almost a “must read” for all those interested in how God used frail and faulty human instruments to establish what has been called “the Chinese church that will not die.”
Sorrow and Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom: Part I - Book Review (Revisited)
Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (1) - Book Review (Revisited)
Dana Robert has given us a slim volume that tells the thrilling story of the spread of Christianity from its beginnings as a tiny minority in Palestine to today, when, as the “largest religion in the world,” “[t]he geographic range, cultural diversity, and organizational variety of Christianity surpass those of the other great world religions.”