Pietist and Puritan Sources of Early Protestant World Missions (Cotton Mather and A.H. Francke)

To Kenneth Scott Latourette and his seven volumes of The History of the Expansion of Christianity1 we owe the fact that there is available a total picture of the life and growth of the Christian Churches in which the history of missions is considered to be the most important expression of the life of the Church. His seven volumes prove the thesis that church history is essentially the history of missions.