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Christian conversion and mission.(Editorial)
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Given the scores of editorial themes featured in the IBMR since 1977, readers may be surprised to learn that "conversion" has never been included among them. Of course it has been an implicit motif many times, since the subject is seldom far from the center of most mission-related discourse. Christian scriptures have a lot to say about conversion. Given humanity's pervasive awareness that things, including us, are not as they ought to be, disappointingly deficient early believers must have been heartened by Paul's assurance that they were being transformed into the likeness of ...
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Conflicting understandings of Christian conversion: a missiological challenge.
; ...today a lively interest in Christian conversion, which perhaps reflects the...repentance (Acts 26:20). Christian conversion is characterized by a decision...what constitutes genuine Christian conversion. Disputes among the various...
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Christian Conversion Stories of African American Women: A Qualitative Analysis
; ...qualitative study examines the Christian conversion experiences of African American...how these women understand Christian conversion. Findings suggest that for...examined the phenomenon of Christian conversion from various theological...
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Turning to Jesus: The Sociology of Conversion in the Gospels
; ...to Jesus: The Sociology of Conversion in the Gospels by Scot McKnight...and wide-ranging analysis of Christian conversion. While firmly rooted in his...specifically unpacks the dynamics of Christian conversion in six "dimensions": context...
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Conversion in the New Testament: Paul and the Twelve
; ...produce an understanding of Christian conversion that is both exegetically...as the definitive model of Christian conversion, the author detects the same...essential characteristics of Christian conversion-insight, turning, and transformation-succinct...
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Implications of conversion in the old testament and the new.
; ...associated with repentance and conversion--sub--is much more often addressed...1) God most eagerly seeks the conversion of his own people, who seem most...turning away from him in the conversion of apostasy rather than turning...
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Marcel, Girard, Bakhtin: The Return of Conversion.(Book review)
; MARCEL, GIRARD, BAKHTIN: THE RETURN OF CONVERSION. By Plus Ojara, S.J., and Patrick Madigan...issue a timely and necessary call to conversion, to bring that call to a recognition...that there should occur such a thing as conversion (10). In our paradoxical age, conversion...
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Conversion in the New Testament
; Conversion in the New Testament, by Ronald D. Witherup. Zacchaeus...theological and scriptural topics. Witherup's topic is conversion, a subject of lively interest especially in evangelical...of the topic, and a consideration of the "language of conversion" in Old and New Testaments, the author sketches ...
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Religious Change, Conversion and Culture.(Review)
; ...over-riding concern, thus other factors which lead to conversion are never accompanied by true faith. Anthropological approaches to religious conversion move in an opposite direction. Based on the...structuration. In developing a new theory of conversion, Cusack is influenced by Horton's concern ...
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When There Is No Conversion: Spiritualists and Personal Religious Change
; ...are part of the contemporary scene, conversion marks a transformation of religious...Spiritualism was born in the modern era, conversion is not evident among the spiritualists...typical changes of religious identity like conversion. Keywords: religion, modernity, conversion...
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Conversion of a Continent: Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America.(Book review)
; Conversion of a Continent: Contemporary Religious Chan e in Latin...and examine the process, implication, and nature of conversion. Twelve chapters (including one each by the editors...Venezuela. The first section of the book, Approaches to Conversion, includes chapters by Alejandro Frigerio, Henri Gooren...
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