Islam and Christianity: Contemporary Mission Insights, a 47-page booklet of informative reprints from past issues of the IBMR—a $10 value—features J. Dudley Woodberry on “Terrorism, Islam, and Mission: Reflections of a Guest in Muslim Lands,” David A. Kerr on “Christian Mission and Islamic Studies: Beyond Antithesis,” Todd M. Johnson on “Christian Missions and Islamic Da’wah: A Preliminary Quantitative Assessment,” Heather J. Sharkey on “Arabic Antimissionary Treatises: Muslim Responses to Christian Evangelism in the Modern Middle East,” Colin Chapman on “Time to Give Up the Idea of Christian Mission to Muslims? Some Reflections from the Middle East” and others.

This monumental work fills the gap in the research and documentation of Christian missions, spanning nearly 2,000 years of world history. Never before has there been such extensive and comprehensive coverage of Christian missions with 2,400 original signed biographies by 350 authors from 45 countries. In a convenient A-Z format, the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions provides not only an authoritative record of outstanding persons in the missionary movement, but also a sweeping historical account of worldwide achievement and impact. Includes Appendix, Index, and Bibliographies. Included in the articles are:

• Date and place of birth of the missionary, place of service, and religious affiliation

• Writings and other achievements; development of the first dictionaries and grammars of non-Western languages; references to practices of indigenous peoples around the world from the earliest days of contact with Western culture

• Increasingly important roles of the missions in European and North American regions and how they have moved outside the boundaries of Western colonialism with hundreds of new missions and thousands of new workers from Asia, Africa, South America, and Oceania