Mcknight, S: Finding Faith, Losing Faith

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4813-1473-2
Verlag: Baylor University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Scot McKnight (Ph.D. University of Nottingham) is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University and author or editor of twelve books, including The Historical Jesus (2005), Turning to Jesus (2002), and Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (1992).Hauna Ondrey is currently an M.A. candidate in theology at North Park Theological Seminary.