The book would have benefited from either an expanded introduction (just seven pages plus two pages of definitions) or a thorough conclusion. Instead, the reader is left with a series of helpful but disparate and unconnected chapters and the overall picture isn't really brought together. Also, there is little to indicate which of the twelve chapters' trends are the most important, or how they interact.
The Changing Face of World Missions promises to help the reader "discover trends that are changing the shape of world missions," and it does just that - but this is at the surface-level, not a critical dissection. It functions well as an introductory volume, a signpost to deeper and more specialist literature, and culminates in a helpful 500-work reference list (although a short, key-works bibliography would have enhanced each chapter). Peppered throughout the book are quotes and references from the majority world, although not as many as one would hope for from a book on