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Vince Bantu, A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity (2020).

Kevin Ward. A History of Global Anglicanism (2006).

Eric O. Jacobsen. Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens (2020).

Andrew Wilson. Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship (2019).

Brian Stanley. Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History ​(2018).

Greg Peters. The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality (2018).

Andrew F. Walls. Crossing Cultural Frontiers: Studies in the History of World Christianity (2017).

Hans Boersma. Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church (2017).

William Edgar. Created and Creating: A Biblical Theology of Culture (2016).

Allen Kreider. The Patient Ferment of the Early Church (2016).

George Demacopoulos. Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome (2015).

Craig Ott, ed. The Mission of the Church: Five Views in Conversation (2016).

Henning Wrogemann. Intercultural Hermeneutics (2016).

Douglas Jacobsen. Global Gospel: An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents (2015).

David Shenk. Christian.Muslim.Friend: Twelve Paths to Real Relationship (2014).

Scott W. Sunquist. The Unexpected Christian Century: The Reversal and Transformation of Global Christianity, 1900-2000 (2015).

Greg Peters. The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality (2015).

Todd M. Johnson and Cindy Wu. Our Global Families: Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World (2016).

Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi and Justo L. Gonzalez. To All Nations from All Nations: A History of the Christian Missionary Movement (2013).

Andrew B. McGowan. Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective (2014).

J. Patout Burns and Robin M. Jensen. Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs (2014).

Stephen M. Hildebrand. Basil of Caesarea (2014).

Scott W. Sunquist. Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory (2013).

Scott McKnight. Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church (2014).

Nicki Verploegen. From Monks to Missionaries: Schools of Spirituality in the Christian Tradition (2013).

Kelly Kapic. ​A Little Book for New Theologians (2012).

John Fea. Why Study History: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past (2013).

Andrew Louth. ​Introducing Eastern Orthodoxy (2013).

Brian Stanley. Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott (2013).

Christopher A. Hall. Worshiping with the Church Fathers (2009).

Matthew Levering. The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works (2013).

William Harmless. Augustine in His Own Words (2010).

Robert Louis Wilken. The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (2012).

David Dunaetz. The Early Religious History of France: An Introduction for Church Planters and Missionaries (2012).

Carl Trueman. The Creedal Imperative (2012).

Tom Steffen. The Facilitator Era: Beyond Pioneer Church Multiplication (2011).

Thomas C. Oden. The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition (2011).

Patrick Johnstone. The Future of the Global Church: History, Trends, and Possibilities (2011).

Jeffrey P. Greenman and Gene L. Green, eds. Global Theology In Evangelical Perspective: Exploring the Contextual Nature of Theology and Mission (2012).

Thomas C. Oden. Early Libyan Christianity: Uncovering a North African Tradition (2011)

Peter J. Leithart. Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom (2010).

Mark A. Noll. The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith (2009).

Mark Shaw. Global Awakening: How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution (2010).

Craig Ott, Steve Strauss, and Timothy Tennent. Encountering Theology of Mission (2010).

Timothy C. Tennent. Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Theology of Mission for the Twenty-first Century (2010).

George Demacopoulos. Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church (2007).

Thomas C. Oden. How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity (2008).

​Susan R. Holman, ed. Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (2008).

Martin I. Klauber and Scott Manetsch, eds. The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions (2008).

Bryan M. Litfin. Getting to Know the Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction (2007).

Gilbert Meilaender. The Way that Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life (2006).
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