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List Price: Paperback
$18.00Sigler Price: Paperback
$10.00
Paperback - 160 pp
ISBN 080061545X
Fortress Press
Summary
By examining key biblical texts, especially Luke-Acts, Paul, John
and 1 Peter, Gaventa aims "to learn what conversion and
transformation meant in the contexts of first-century Christianity
and to compare that with understandings of being 'born
again.'" She studies the function of conversion
language and conversion narratives from the perspective of
comparative religion and social psychology. She proposes a
threefold typology of personal change - alternation, conversion,
transformation - for understanding conversion both in the first
century and today.
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