In this seminal 2007 article, renowned missiologist Ralph D. Winter provides an insightful overview of 300 years of missions history. He argues that the evangelical Church worldwide is, today, recovering the same comprehensive, transformational kingdom theology that animated the British and U.S. churches during the Wesleyan revival in England and the Great Awakening in the U.S.—a theology of Christian involvement in society that led to, among other things, the abolition of the British slave trade.