A01=Hauna Ondrey
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apostasy
Author_Hauna Ondrey
Author_Scot McKnight
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Category=QRAB
Category=QRAC
conversion
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religion
Product details
- ISBN 9781481314732
- Weight: 382g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
