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Book review: From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story , written by Mark A. Noll

Book review: From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story ,... From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story . Grand Rapids, Michigan, us , Baker Academic 2014. Pp. xvi + 208. $19.99. With its title taken from the New Testament (Rev. 5:9), From Every Tribe and Nation is the third book in the Baker Academic series “Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity.” Begun in 2013 and edited by Joel Carpenter, who is the director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College in Michigan, us , the series “offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments toward the global South and East.” The personal reflections offered in the series stand in contrast to David B. Barrett’s World Christian Encyclopedia and the many other reference works that present the recent statistical data on the growth of Christianity in the non-Western world. Besides the two other “Turning South” books and Lamin Sanneh’s 2012 Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African , From Every Tribe and Nation adds another autobiographical account to the literature on world Christianity. Since 2006, Noll has served as a history professor at Notre Dame, a Catholic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

Book review: From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story , written by Mark A. Noll

Mission Studies , Volume 32 (1): 169 – Apr 10, 2015

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0168-9789
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1573-3831
DOI
10.1163/15733831-12341396
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From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story . Grand Rapids, Michigan, us , Baker Academic 2014. Pp. xvi + 208. $19.99. With its title taken from the New Testament (Rev. 5:9), From Every Tribe and Nation is the third book in the Baker Academic series “Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity.” Begun in 2013 and edited by Joel Carpenter, who is the director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College in Michigan, us , the series “offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments toward the global South and East.” The personal reflections offered in the series stand in contrast to David B. Barrett’s World Christian Encyclopedia and the many other reference works that present the recent statistical data on the growth of Christianity in the non-Western world. Besides the two other “Turning South” books and Lamin Sanneh’s 2012 Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African , From Every Tribe and Nation adds another autobiographical account to the literature on world Christianity. Since 2006, Noll has served as a history professor at Notre Dame, a Catholic

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Published: Apr 10, 2015

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