In this work, therefore, Mark Noll has launched a needed discussion about the Christian influence of this nation abroad. He has indeed shown affinities between the adaptations that the Christian message and movement underwent in North America since the mid-eighteenth century and the embrace and adaptation of the Christian message in lands to which American missionaries were commissioned. Yet he himself has acknowledged that there are limits to the application of this proposal. And he has not either proposed that America stands alone in this role of mediating a necessarily adapted Christian message to new receptor cultures. For such reasons, we can look forward with anticipation to the rousing discussion that the release of this fine volume will stimulate.