David B. Barrett: Missionary Statistician

An extensive collection of David Barrett's correspondence, articles, and books is housed at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. In addition, over one million documents collected by Barrett and his colleagues documenting the global spread of Christianity are filed there. The collection also includes thousands of photographs, drawings, maps, and other forms of media.

1965 (with Lawson James S. Ayam B. B. ) The Evangelization of West Africa Today: A Survey Across 21 Nations and 150 Tribes. Yaoundé, Cameroon: DWME/AACC. 39 pp.

1968 Schism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious Movements. Nairobi: Oxford Univ. Press; 2nd printing, 1970. 363 pp., with foldout map. Resulted in seventy book reviews, 1968–72.

1970 “AD 2000: 350 Million Christians in Africa.” International Review of Mission 59, no. 233 (January): 39–54. Issue “Sixty Years After Edinburgh.” Background paper, in French and English, for Abidjan Assembly, All Africa Conference of Churches, September 1969.

1982 World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World, 1900–2000. Nairobi: Oxford Univ. Press. 1,010 pp., 1,500 photographs, 24-page atlas. Resulted in 350 book reviews. Second edition in 2001 with Kurian George T. Johnson Todd M. ,

1983 “Silver and Gold Have I None: Church of the Poor or Church of the Rich?” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 7, no. 4 (October): 146–51.

1988 (with Reapsome James W. ) Seven Hundred Plans to Evangelize the World: The Rise of a Global Evangelization Movement. The AD 2000 Series. Birmingham, Ala.: New Hope. 123 pp.

1989 (with Padwick T. John ) Rise Up and Walk! Conciliarism and the African Indigenous Churches, 1815–1987. Nairobi: Oxford Univ. Press. 111 pp. A sequel to Schism and Renewal in Africa (1968).

1990 (with Johnson Todd M. ) Our Globe and How to Reach It: Seeing the World Evangelized by AD 2000 and Beyond. The AD 2000 Series. Birmingham, Ala.: New Hope. 136 pp. Official Data Book of NARSC/Indianapolis 1990 and ICCOWE/Brighton 1991.

1995 (ed., with Johnson Todd M. ) AD 2000 Global Monitor: Keeping Track of World Evangelization. Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey Library. Consolidated volume, first forty monthly issues, 1990–94, with extensive full index.

2001 (with Johnson Todd M. ) World Christian Trends, AD 30–AD 2200: Interpreting the Annual Christian Megacensus. Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey Library. 952 pp.