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This book examines conversion stories as told by people who have actually undergone a conversion experience, including experiences of apostasy. The stories reveal that there is not just one ""conversion story."" Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey show that ""conversion theory"" helps explain why some people walk away from one religion, often to another, very different religion. The book confirms the usefulness--particularly for pastors, rabbis, and priests, and university and college teachers--of applying conversion theory to specific groups. However, the book's sensitive detailing of the stories themselves makes conversion more than a theoretical occurrence; it makes the immediacy, and often the difficulty, of conversion both real and moving.

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This book stirs deep reflection on the faith journeys of courageous people. -Lewis Rambo, San Francisco Theological Seminary

Table of Contents
  • Conversion: What Really Happens?
  • 1 Leaving Church, Finding Freedom
  • Anatomy of Apostasy
  • 2 Leaving the Synagogue, Finding the Church
  • When Jews Become Messianic Jews
  • 3 Leaving Rome, Finding Wheaton
  • Catholics Behaving Protestantly
  • 4 Leaving Wheaton, Finding Rome
  • The Improbable Conversion of Evangelicals to Catholicism
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

    Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy

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      A Paperback by Scot McKnight, Hauna Ondrey

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        Publisher Baylor University Press
        Published 30 July 2008
        ISBN-13 9781602581623
        978-1602581623
        ISBN-10 1602581622
        Also in:
        Comparative religion Philosophy of religion Religion and beliefs

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        This book examines conversion stories as told by people who have actually undergone a conversion experience, including experiences of apostasy. The stories reveal that there is not just one ""conversion story."" Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey show that ""conversion theory"" helps explain why some people walk away from one religion, often to another, very different religion. The book confirms the usefulness--particularly for pastors, rabbis, and priests, and university and college teachers--of applying conversion theory to specific groups. However, the book's sensitive detailing of the stories themselves makes conversion more than a theoretical occurrence; it makes the immediacy, and often the difficulty, of conversion both real and moving.

        Trade Review
        This book stirs deep reflection on the faith journeys of courageous people. -Lewis Rambo, San Francisco Theological Seminary

        Table of Contents
        • Conversion: What Really Happens?
        • 1 Leaving Church, Finding Freedom
        • Anatomy of Apostasy
        • 2 Leaving the Synagogue, Finding the Church
        • When Jews Become Messianic Jews
        • 3 Leaving Rome, Finding Wheaton
        • Catholics Behaving Protestantly
        • 4 Leaving Wheaton, Finding Rome
        • The Improbable Conversion of Evangelicals to Catholicism
        • Conclusion
        • Bibliography
        • Index

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