Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy

by Scot McKnight, Hauna Ondrey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602581623
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	07/14/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

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

What People are Saying About This

This book stirs deep reflection on the faith journeys of courageous people.

Lewis Rambo

This book stirs deep reflection on the faith journeys of courageous people.

Editorial Reviews

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

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