Book Notes In Coming Benson, Linda K. Across China’s Gobi: The Lives of Evangeline French, Mildred Cable, and Issues Francesca French of the China Inland Mission. Norwalk, Conn.: EastBridge, 2008. Pp. xiv, 261. Paperback $29.95. Ivan Illich and the American Bock, Darrell L., and Mitchell Glaser, eds. Catholic Missionary Initiative in To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History. Latin America Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2008. Pp. 347. Paperback $16.99. Todd Hartch Crofts, Daniel W. Mission to Nowhere: Putting Short- Upstream Odyssey: An American in China (1895–1944). Term Missions into Context Norwalk, Conn.: EastBridge, 2008. Pp. ix, 253. Paperback $29.95. Brian M. Howell Religious Conversion in the Cruchley-Jones, Peter, ed. Americas: Meanings, Measures, God at Ground Level: Reappraising Church Decline in the UK Through the and Methods Experience of Grass Roots Communities and Situations. Timothy J. Steigenga Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 132. Paperback €27.70 / SFr 43 / £20.80 / $42.95. Theological Education in a World Eitel, Keith E., ed. Christian Context Missions in Contexts of Violence. Dale T. Irvin Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey Library, 2008. Pp. 444. Paperback $14.99. U.S. Megachurches and New Engelsviken, Tormod, Ernst Harbakk, Rolv Olsen, and Thor Strandenæs, eds. Patterns of Global Ministry Mission to the World: Communicating the Gospel in the Twenty-first Century: Robert J. Priest Essays in Honour of Knud Jørgensen. Oxford: Regnum Books, 2008. Pp. 472. $40 / NKr 250. Christian Mission and the Sexuality Struggle: The Case of the Episcopal Fargher, Brian. Church in the Anglican Communion Evangelizing Individuals Who Plant Churches: The Biography of an Ethiopian Titus Presler Itinerant Preacher. Edmonton, Alta.: Urban Missionaries Association of Canada, 2007. Pp. vii, 193. Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Paperback. Paperback $9.50. Encounter with the Enlightenment, 1975–98 Kombo, James Henry Owino. Timothy Yates The Doctrine of God in African Christian Thought: The Holy Trinity, Remembering Evangelization: Theological Hermeneutics, and the African Intellectual Culture. The Option for the Poor and Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiv, 298. €93 / $139. Mission History Lounela, Jaakko. Paul V. Kollman Mission and Development: Finnish Pentecostal, Lutheran, and Orthodox In our Series on the Legacy of Mission Agencies in Development Work in Kenya, 1948–1989. € Outstanding Missionary Figures Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi Univ. Press, 2007. Pp. 296. Paperback 25. of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Notehelfer, F. G. Centuries, articles about Remarkable Journey: Rose Notehelfer and the Missionary Experience in Japan. Thomas Barclay Norwalk, Conn.: EastBridge, 2008. Pp. x, 206. Paperback $29.95. George Bowen Ramsay, Jacob. Hélène de Chappotin Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Carl Fredrik Hallencreutz Nineteenth-Century Vietnam. Thomas Patrick Hughes Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 212. $50. Hannah Kilham George Leslie Mackay Singh, David Emmanuel, ed. Franz Mayr Jesus and the Cross: Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts. Lesslie Newbigin Oxford: Regnum Books, 2008. Pp. ix, 226. Paperback £19.99 / $27. Constance Padwick Steffen, Tom, and Lois McKinney Douglas. Peter Parker Encountering Missionary Life and Work: Preparing for Intercultural Ministry. James Howell Pyke Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008. Pp. xxi, 390. Paperback $24.99. Pandita Ramabai Bakht Singh Sunquist, Scott W., and Caroline N. Becker, eds. James Stephen A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944–2007: A Project of the World Mission Philip B. Sullivan Initiative of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. James M. Thoburn Louisville, Ky.: Geneva Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 390. Paperback $34.95. M. M. Thomas Weston, Paul, comp. Harold W. Turner Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian; A Reader. Johannes Verkuyl Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. 287. Paperback $18. William Vories.