Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 ReviewThis 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
