As Africa and Asia take their place as the new Christian heartlands, a new and robust company of saints is coming into view.In seventeen inspiring narratives Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom introduce pivotal Christian leaders in Africa and Asia who had tenacious faith in the midst of deprivation, suffering and conflict. Spanning a century, from the 1880s to the 1980s, their stories demonstrate the vitality of the Christian faith in a diversity of contexts.This kaleidoscopic witness to the power of the gospel will both inspire and educate. Whether for a class in global Christianity or for a personal journey to other times and places of faith, Clouds of Witnesses is a book that tugs at our curiosity and resists being laid down. An engaging traveling companion to Mark Noll's award-winning book The New Shape of World Christianity.

Mark A. Noll (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Francis McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is advisory editor for Books Culture and subeditor for the new Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Noll's main academic interests concern the interaction of Christianity and culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American societies. He has published articles and reviews on a wide variety of subjects involving Christianity in modern history. Some of his many books include The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Is the Reformation Over?, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys and The Old Religion in a New World.Carolyn Nystrom (MA, Wheaton College) has written more than eighty books, Bible study guides and children's titles. She served as general editor for the Christian Classics series and she co-authored Guard Us, Guide Us and Praying with theologian J. I. Packer, and Before I Was Born (God's Design for Sex) with Sandra Speidel. In addition to actively serving in her church and community, she has been a foster parent, an elementary schoolteacher and a book editor. Carolyn lives in the Chicago area with her husband and they have four grown children.

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Introduction
Southern Africa
1 Bernard Mizeki (c. 1861--1896): The First Anglican African Martyr
2 John Chilembwe (c. 1870--1915): Holistic Christian and Accidental Rebel
3 Albert Luthuli (1898--1967): Gentleman of Justice
West Africa
4 William Wadé Harris (c. 1865 --c. 1929): Passionate Prophet
5 Byang Kato (1936--1975): Theological Visionary
East Africa
6. Simeon Nsibambi (1897--1978): Revival Anchor
7 Janani Luwum (1922--1977): Martyr of"the Second Century"
India
8 Pandita Ramabai (1858--1922): Christian, Hindu, Reformer
9 V. S. Azariah (1874--1945): Bishop, Statesman, Pastor
10 Sundar Singh (1889--1929?): Mysterious Mystic
Korea
11 Sun Chu Kil (1869--1935): Pastor and Founding Father
China
12 Dora Yu (1873--1931): Catalyst for an Enduring Chinese Faith
13 Mary Stone /Shi Meiyu (1873--1954): Agent of Change
14 John Sung /Song Shangjie (1901--1944): Firestorm Evangelist
15 Yao-Tsung Wu /Wu Yaozong (1893--1979): Communist and Christian
16 Wang Mingdao (1900--1991): Imprisoned by Choice
17 Ignatius Cardinal Kung/Kung Pin-Mei (1901--2000): A Catholic Valiant for Truth
Afterword
For Further Reading
Index
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