This book celebrates the 250th birthday of William Carey (“The Father of Modern Missions”) and the 200th anniversary of the mission of Adoniram Judson (the first missionary sent from America).
The contributors include Timothy George and Tim Tennent, as well as voices from World Christianity–namely India and Burma, the destinations of Carey’s and Judson’s missions. William Carey, often dubbed “The Father of Modern Missions,” and Adoniram Judson, America’s first intercontinental missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology, geography, and purpose. However, rarely are they both featured in the same volume or compared and contrasted. Here we have unique material by some of the world’s leading experts on these two giants of missionary history, with perspectives on these men in ways never seen before. Especially relevant to this current age of World Christianity are the perspectives from India and Burma, the lands which received these men for their missionary enterprise.