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Why do missionaries come home prematurely and what can be done about it? Hudson Deane has asked these questions to ninety-two evangelical missionaries from nineteen agencies who were returning to New Zealand.

Historians have long discussed the theological and cultural influence of the eighteenth-century evangelical awakenings on Great Britain and her North American colonies.

Many today may be startled to learn that “Hinduism” is a relatively recent term that did not come into vogue until the late eighteenth century.

Parker traces the history of the SVM by focusing on a variety of themes that shaped the movement’s birth and development.

The book is the first in a new series from Eerdmans entitled the “Missional Church series,” and is comprised of essays that come from a conference on the missional church hosted by Luther Seminary in December 2005.