28 short essays describing Christianity's development in Asia and Africa from the 16th century to the present.

1.Ancient Christianity i the non-Western world -- 2. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: experimentation and rigidity -- 3. The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: expansion and involvement: -- New Western missions and new non-Western churches -- Variations and modifications of Christianity -- Christian social service -- 4. The mid-twentieth century: confrontation and self-assertion: -- The confrontation with nationalism -- The confrontation with communism -- Indigenous expressions of Christianity.