"First published in English 1940."

Bibliography: pages 260-264.

Foreword / William Paton -- Author's preface (to the German edition) -- I .The spiritually historic hour in the East -- II. People, civilization and Christianity of New Guinea (a) The two national crises (b) Native Christianity -- III. Christianity and the transformation of civilization in Netherlands East Indies (a) The four streams of foreign influence (b) The effects of the past, disintegration and transmutation (c) The Christianity of Indonesia (d) The Chinese in Dutch East India -- IV. The rebirth of China and Chinese Christianity (a) China as a unit (b) Collapse and revolt (c) Chinese Christianity -- V. Christianity in the disintegration of India (a) The primeval forest of religions (b) Political, social and spiritual disintegration (c) Indian Christianity -- VI. Civilization, nations in the making, and the question of religion (a) The 'things' of the West, the destruction of social forms, and the vanishing of religious ties (b) Nations in the making (c) The open question -- VII. Immature Christianity in the meeting between East and West (a) The new faith (b) The emergence of native churches : the three formative factors (c) The Western restrictions of the message and their consequences in the construction of the church (d) The heathen restriction of nationality and its effects on Christianity (e) The spirit breaks through (f) The church among the people (g) The obedience of faith.