Conversion has played a central role in the history of
Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative
history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the
Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global
in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings
in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the
Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated
with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a
particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when
examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more
complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single,
unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable
process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a
multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical,
theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting
process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the
conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages
current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines
recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender
and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group-
and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes
of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with
a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most
satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian
history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read
in conversion studies.
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