Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik, and Janice A. McLean -- Part I. A man with a large map -- ch. 1. Andrew F. Walls as mentor / Kwame Bediako -- ch. 2. Andrew F. Walls, Methodist local preacher and hymn writer / I. Howard Marshall -- ch. 3. Andrew F. Walls as teacher in Africa / Allison Howell and Maureen Iheanacho -- Part II. Breaking boundaries, building new ways of scholarship -- ch. 4. Challenging the academy, breaking barriers / Wilbert R. Shenk -- ch. 5. Founding the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World / Brian Stanley -- ch. 6. Changing the course of mission and world Christian studies / Jonathan J. Bonk -- ch. 7. Theological education as embodiment of Jesus / Moonjang Lee -- Part III. Themes in the transmission of Christian faith -- ch. 8. Post-Western wine, post-Christian wineskins? : the Bible and the third wave awakening / Lamin Sanneh -- ch. 9. Conversion: individual and cultural / William R. Burrows -- ch. 10. Ecclesiology, Andrew F. Walls, and the fortunate subversion of the church / Stephen B. Bevans --Part IV. Transformations in understanding Christian history -- ch. 11. Historiographic foundations from Latourette and Van Dusen to Andrew F. Walls / Dana L. Robert -- ch. 12. Andrew F. Walls for Americans / Mark Noll -- ch. 13. Andrew F. Walls and documenting world Christianity in the twenty-first century / Michael Poon -- Part V. Africa's place in Christian history -- ch. 14. Turning that which is already there toward Christ : the contribution of Andrew F. Walls to understanding Africa Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- ch. 15. Gospel and culture : Andrew F. Walls in Africa, Africa in Andrew F. Walls / Gillian Bediako -- ch. 16. Migration and the globalization of Christianity / Jehu J. Hanciles -- Conclusion : the emergence of world Christianity and the remaking of theology / Kwame Bediako.