Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : Pt 1 : Writing Brethren history : 'To equip and encourage': the life of Harold H. Rowden / Ian M. Randall -- The quest for identity in British Brethren historiography: some reflections by an outsider / Tim Grass -- To encourage historians of the Christian Brethren: a meditation / Beth Dickson -- Pt 2 : British Brethren experiences : John Eliot Howard: from friend to brother / Gerald T West -- George Muller and the financing of the scriptural knowledge institution / Neil Summerton -- Revivalism and the limits of cooperation: Brethren origins in Orkney in the 1860s / Neil T.R. Dickson -- Brethren in Bearwood: the earliest days / Jean M. Johnson -- A bulwark of evangelicalism: Brethren as a lay movement in England in the 1930s / Roger Shuff -- Brethren in Britain, 1945-2000: a personal sketch / Harold H. Rowdon -- Pt 3: Worldwide Brethren experiences: Julius Anton von Poseck (1816-1898) and the brethren origins in Germany / August Jung -- The early yeaars of a new assembly: Bethesda Gospel Hall, Singapore, 1864-1914 / Jason Lim -- Brethren revivalism : a second look at New Zealand / Peter Lineham -- 'Do the next thing': Henry Lewis Garrett and the evolution of the Hobart Brethren Assembly / Elisabeth Wilson -- Christian Brethren Assemblies in Jamaica, 1923-2003 / Winston G. Litchmore -- Brethren missionary settlers and a colonial settler compared and contrasted / Pauline Summerton -- Some missiological issues from he past facing the Christian Brethren assemblies in Zambia today / Kovina L.K. Mutenda -- The Brethren movement in Angola, 1960-2000 / Jose Neto -- Pt 4 : The Brethren in International Experience : Anthony Norris Groves in an international context: a re-assessment of his early development / Timothy C.F. Stunt -- The place of the Brethren movement in international evangelicalism / D.W. Bebbington -- Select bibliography of the writings of Harold H. Rowdon / Tim Grass and Graham Johnson.