Kenneth Scott Latourette

Career From 1909 through 1910, Latourette served as a traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. in Pasadena, California. The institution's main library was called the Latourette Library. (The WCIU campus was sold to Education First and therefore no longer heralds Latourette's name).

Linfield College named a residence hall in his honor in 1946.

Writings Latourette was the author of over 80 books on Christianity, Oriental history and customs, and theological subjects. In addition, Latourette later wrote extensively on China.

The single work for which Latourette is most remembered is the seven-volume "A History of the Expansion of Christianity". Latourette noted within Volume 4 that only 5% of Americans in 1790 had formal ties to churches or synagogues.

Latourette's papers are archived in the Divinity Library Special Collections of the Yale University Library.

Selected works

. – full text online . . . . . , 7 vol. comprehensive history of all missions and expansions A history of the expansion of Christianity. 1. The first five centuries (1937) A history of the expansion of Christianity. 2. The thousand years of uncertainty. 500–1500. (1938) A history of expansion of christianity. 3.Three centuries of advance: A.D. 1500-A.D. 1800 (1939) A history of expansion of Christianity. 4. The great century: in Europe and the United States of America; A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914 (1941) A history of the expansion of Christianity. 5. The great century in the Americas, Australasia, and Africa. 1800–1914 (1943) online review A history of the expansion of Christianity. 6, The great century in Northern Africa and Asia: A.D. 1800 - A.D. 1914 (1944) A history of expansion of Christianity. 7. Advance through storm: AD 1914 and after, with concluding generalizations (1945) . . . . Alt URL . . . . . online . .