Satheesh Kunjumon

Review By Satheesh Kumar Pallithazhe Kunjumon SWBTS, Fort Worth, Texas Klauber, I. and Manetsch, M. Scott. The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2008. Pp. 228. This is an excellent book on the theme of "The Great Commission", a collection of 11 essays in honor of Dr. John D. Woodbridge, research professor of Church History at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Critical Reflection This book The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions is about the collections of essays written by 11/15 different authors of evangelical scholarship. These essays are the papers presented on the theme of the Great Commission in the conference held at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in April 2006. The essays are written from the perspective of the historical survey of evangelical missions. Some of those essays focus on the events that led to globalization of evangelical movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America but not all of them talk about the history of world missions. Though the essays in this book emphasis on the missions of evangelicals and protestants in cross cultural missions starting from the 16th century, a very little is said about the history of Roman Catholic missions. The book claims to provide a historical overview of the history of world missions, but then it doesn’t cover up the entire six continents in the world like for example, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South Africa, and Oceania but discusses only the major regions like Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Three of the nine essays are written exclusively on the theme of The Great Commission that might do justice to the title of the book while others talk much about Protestants and their role in world missions. Mostly the essays are written from an American evangelical perspective.