Scott Sunquist's collection of essays pertaining to the history of Christianity in Asia ranges very widely, yet also keeps a tight focus. Sunquist has assembled fifteen essays into four themes pertaining to Asian Christianity: general surveys of Christian history, the shifting historiography of the region, missiology and the work of doing Christian history, and a set of case studies on Christianity and education.

The first theme—general surveys of Christian histories across Asia—does exactly that. Sunquist's essays survey the history of the religion in order to provide readers with the baseline understanding they will need for the following three themes. The second section on history and historiographies focuses on Sunquist's aim to rethink the history of Asian Christianity from a focus on development and growth of Christian populations and institutions to a focus on the qualitative assessment of Christianity in Asia as a movement. The third theme looks at Christian histories in Asia through the lens of missiology and missions. Sunquist's main thrust here maintains that, despite an increasing focus on indigeneity in Christianities of Asia, the religion as a movement has not sprung from nothing and requires an essential component of human-to-human interaction—mission—to sustain it. The fourth and final section comprises a set of case studies of the role education has played in Christian histories of Asia, notably in an East Asian context.

Of this collection of Sunquist's essays, perhaps most interesting for historians will be those grouped under the themes of history and missiology. There Sunquist offers stimulating thoughts on approaches to studying Asian Christianity that may be of interest to historians working closely with Asian Christian source materials to apply in their own work.