This second edition of the Gospel's Encyclopedia following the first which was published in 2002, includes a number of additional articles to increase the capacity of the book as a ready reference tool for people of the Christian community and also for folk outside this faith who like to enquire at leisure. Born in Southampton in 1933, the author, a historian writes with a history aspect to serve the Christian system because research skills normal in this discipline often enable discoveries to be made: the books of the gospels deal in true actual events which occurred - it is not an epic. Rudge belongs denominationally to the Presbyterian allegiance, but the writing is generally extra-mural. Here the reader may find what Russian friends term vestnik, drevnej istoria, new light on old history; historical research through the best available Western archive and museum resources can contribute to the Christian ashram of Bharati puja for its own new and rising indigenous form of the Christian way, for all who walk with Christ along the Indian road.