{"id":60183,"date":"2022-07-27T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=60183"},"modified":"2022-08-03T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T23:31:17","slug":"brief-book-review-a-history-of-christian-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/brief-book-review-a-history-of-christian-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Book Review: <i>A History of Christian Conversion<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A History of Christian Conversion<br \/>\n<\/em>By David W. Kling<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60185 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Picture1-1-278x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Picture1-1-278x400.jpg 278w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Picture1-1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Picture1-1.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>As I read this excellent and comprehensive study, a single example of one \u201cconversion process\u201d kept recurring to me. One year, while my family was vacationing at the beach, we invited a friend\u2019s grandchildren to spend a day with us. It was a wonderful day, and the children had a great time. At the end of the visit, when their parents came to collect them, the boy described to his father what a wonderful time it had been. The father, who had been working with his wife as evangelical missionaries, replied, \u201cYes, but Jesus\u2019s beach is better.\u201d The boy tried again and again to describe this wonderful experience and its almost transcendent nature, only to be stopped by the same refrain: \u201cJesus\u2019s beach is better.\u201d Finally, defeated, the boy acknowledged in an empty voice that his father was correct, and Jesus\u2019s beach was better than this beach on which we stood.<\/p>\n<p>That demand for agreement to a code of belief in a supernatural world necessarily \u201cother\u201d than the one rooted in personal experience, a belief system distinct from an approach that might consider experience as revelatory of the divine presence, is one approach to conversion described repeatedly in this book as dominant at different periods of Christian history. It differs dramatically from that second approach based on experience, the one acknowledged by St. Thomas Aquinas in the comment that \u201cnothing is in the intellect that is not first in the senses,\u201d one also described in a comment that Dr. J. Michael McMahon (Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada) recently made on Psalm 8: \u201cThe very world in which we live, indeed the entire cosmos, gives witness to a God whose love overflows in creative energy.\u201d In other words, to return to the example, <em>this<\/em> beach reveals Jesus\u2019 beach and, indeed, <em>is<\/em> Jesus\u2019 beach for those who are open to experience it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the main point? <\/strong>The main point of this very detailed but very readable history is the variety of ways that \u201cconversion\u201d has been understood in Christian history, both in terms of what the convert thinks conversion to be and in terms of what the \u201cconverting authority\u201d considers authentic conversion to be. Kling makes clear that there have been multifaceted dimensions to conversion and its context through twenty centuries of Christian history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does it matter? <\/strong>The criteria for conversion are often taken for granted by people exploring conversion to Christianity or by others engaged in the conversion process. Kling, however, aims \u201cto demonstrate the empirical complexity of the conversion phenomenon, contending there is no unitary model of conversion, no single, easily demonstrable process that accounts for why people convert to Christianity or why they convert to Christianity over another religion\u201d (p. 661).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s it for? <\/strong>In its highlighting of the many ways conversion has been understood and the numerous factors that enter into those perceptions, this would be an important read for anyone involved in the process of conversion, especially those working with adult initiation. However, given the size (852 pages) and price ($150.00) of this book, it is unlikely that parish initiation teams will be buying and reading it in bulk. But it is a valuable resource for diocesan offices or for academic institutions that offer courses on conversion and initiation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kudos.<\/strong> Kling\u2019s expertise across multiple fields of study is amazing, from contemporary biblical analysis, through a historian\u2019s view beyond the narratives about major figures (saints and sinners among them), to a carefully critical study of modern imperialism and its associated missionary impulse. Equally impressive is his ability to draw all of this together in a coherent analysis of the multiple meanings of \u201cconversion\u201d through the vagaries of history. What emerges is a presentation of conversion as a key expressive element in the way Christianity itself was perceived and communicated at any one time, place, and culture. Yet, despite Kling\u2019s fine work and his very readable presentation of this detailed analysis, he leads us to conclude that \u201cin the end, conversion remains an inscrutable phenomenon\u201d (p. 23).<\/p>\n<p>Kling, David W. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/a-history-of-christian-conversion-9780195320923?q=a%20history%20of%20christian%20conversion&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A History of Christian Conversion<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 852 pages. $150.00. ISBN: 9780195320923.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>REVIEWER:\u00a0<\/strong>Gordon Truitt<br \/>\nDr. Gordon E. 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