6; and Eamon Duffy, “The Long Reformation: Catholicism, Protestantism, and the Multitude,” in Tyacke, England's Long Reformation, 1500–1800, 36. William Perkins, quoted in Duffy, “Long Reformation,” 29. Quoted in Collinson, Religion of ...
David Frawley, a Hindu convert from Catholicism, echoed these criticisms by calling any organized effort by Christian missionaries to convert others “psychological violence,” an “ideological assault,” a form of “religious violence and ...
--Ramsay MacMullen, Yale University I recommend this book highly to anyone interested not only in the history and theology of Christian initiation, but in the relationship of Christianity and culture throughout the ages.
Christianity is a religion of conversion, but what is conversion? This book explores the fullness of the Christian life and the threefold turnings that it demands of Jesus’ followers.
A collection of fifty first-person conversion accounts spanning Christian history from the Apostle Paul to St. Augustine to Malcolm Muggeridge and Charles Colson.
Although the Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example, the approach in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Riesman's trifurcation is summarized in figure 44 somewhat more fully than is seen in the distinctions we have explored ... and disagreement when one compares the schemas of Tonnies , the earlier and later Benedict , Hsu , and Riesman .
This groundbreaking study uncovers fascinating new data on sudden shifts in religious and nonreligious belief. Amazing Conversions explores, for the first time ever, the reasons why converts join, and apostates go.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Turning to God explores these fundamental questions about regeneration and conversion, distinguishing Christianity from every other faith as one in which conversion is unique, supernatural, and necessary for salvation.