Harris chronicled
his conversion experience in his bestselling 2014 memoir, 10 % Happier.
I've never heard of them being called numinous experiences before but I've had many including and after
my conversion experience in the late 80's.
The only real difference between a Bushnell and a Moody concerned whether children must also have
a conversion experience in order to know that they are Christian.
They did not try to arouse
conversion experiences in their listeners nor did they cultivate religious emotions or sentiments.
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Yet,
in the months following my unlikely
conversion to Christianity
in 2003, I kept meeting people whose circumstances dovetailed so perfectly with that of a Bible character or my
experience of the transforming power of Jesus that offering them encouragement through any other lens seemed inadequate.
In my
experience the
conversion is almost never based cold weighing of the «evidence» and then deciding their must be a god and jesus was his son, etc..
Sometimes at the moment when marriage is contracted, a person was not a believer; but it is also possible that a
conversion process took place
in his life, through which he
experienced a sanatio ex posteriori [a «healing» or validation after the fact] of what was a serious defect of consent at the moment when it was given.
The third category deals with things that would not convince him at all: speaking
in tongues or other pseudo-miracles; people's
conversion stories; any subjective
experience; the Bible Code or other numerological feats, creationism of any sort.
Ten months into our
conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be
experiencing the grace of God while
in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.
Most «seeing the light»
conversion experiences can be traced to some form of epilepsy, however if,
in this hypothetical, there is no trace of brain abnormality, it would still be unwise to believe such a person's account.
The result is basically a «convertive piety» with its call to self conscious
conversion, the
experience of the «new birth,» and a life of «holiness» that is demonstrably and empirically distinct from the rest of the world
in its expression of «actual righteousness.»
The new Roman Catholic «Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults» has also attracted attention as a means of making the
conversion of an adult an
experience shared
in community rather than an individual matter.
I do find it incredible that
in the sudden
conversion she
experienced, she instantly knew that Catholicism was the correct path.
Another factor
in the success of this approach is its well - developed system for consolidating the
conversion experience.
The mission structure provides an environment
in which the
conversion experience may be consolidated.
In fact, Wesley was confused by the experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential conversions in church histor
In fact, Wesley was confused by the
experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential
conversions in church histor
in church history.
In 1533 John Calvin experienced his conversion, and later that year, one of John Calvin's close friends, Nicolas Cop, publicly sided with the Reformers in calling for changes in the Roman Catholic Churc
In 1533 John Calvin
experienced his
conversion, and later that year, one of John Calvin's close friends, Nicolas Cop, publicly sided with the Reformers
in calling for changes in the Roman Catholic Churc
in calling for changes
in the Roman Catholic Churc
in the Roman Catholic Church.
Through class meetings, love feasts, and the singing of evangelical hymns, something of the joy
experienced in conversion was retained and renewed.
Typical
in conversion experiences some life altering event has occured and the security of knowing God is
in control brings relief.
On the one hand, there is his clear conviction that he did not become a Christian, despite his having been baptized and reared
in the church, until he had a
conversion experience while an undergraduate at Oxford.
In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabble
In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior
conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain
in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabble
in doubt), a procedure mainly of value
in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabble
in entitling one to vote
in future congregational squabble
in future congregational squabbles.
Unlike other restorationists and more mainstream Christians, Pentecostals taught the «baptism
in (or with) the Holy Spirit» — a religious
experience beyond
conversion made evident
in the convert's ability to speak
in tongues.
Though
experienced as increasingly inadequate, traditional cosmology nevertheless continued to play a part
in the
conversion process.
Although their particular tactics are enormously diverse, many fundamentalist groups impose creedal tests on their followers, many have rites of passage such as
conversion experiences that demarcate entry into the community, and many enforce conformity
in such matters as dress, sexuality and the use of alcohol.
That was done by Saul of Tarsus, (Paul), after his
conversion experience, and his tussle with the followers of Jesus
in Jerusalem.
Three of them afterward described the meeting
in intensely emotional terms, testifying to something like a
conversion experience as Benedict listened to them one by one and spoke of sorrow, shame, and the power of repentance and forgiveness.
The long struggle over whether a
conversion experience was essential for church membership was an argument over whether the unconverted could share
in the covenant relation with the converted and attain at least some of the worldly and spiritual advantages of church membership.
But now, the later revivalists saw God at work primarily
in the
conversion experience and
in the resulting life of Christian good works.
Although we must congratulate Wesley and his descendants on their concern for sanctification, they tended to focus it, like
conversion, on a single
experience at a point
in time.
Having
experienced conversion, he would show it
in his actions, so his actions became all - important.
The spiritual
conversion experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the individual along
in a «new» way of life, and it does for those...
If we are able to accept the difficult circumstances that we
experience in our families as gifts from God for our
conversion, then there is hope.
A profound
experience of
conversion, of the reordering of the deepest levels of the personality
in the light of a transcendent vision, is not absent
in America, but it is harder than ever to integrate with the dominant cultural mood.
A foretaste of that radical Consummation was already attained by those who underwent the
experience of
conversion that has been so central to every generation of Protestant Christians
in America from the early 17th century to the present.
In his book Fundamentalism (Westminster, 1978) James Barr argues that fundamentalism arises out of a particular religious tradition: the revival
experience of
conversion and the intensely personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
In the biographies of J. Alfred Smith and David Bartlett, we find both spiritual formation and the development of social consciousness (Hunter), which may be termed
conversion and consciousness - raising
experiences.
Journalist William Scholes, writing
in the Anglican journal the Churchman, suggests that Alpha overemphasizes a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, making it «a second
conversion experience.»
Some regard Christianity as a set of values to be honored as a guide to living; others
experience it as a
conversion in which one accepts Jesus Christ as one's personal Lord and Savior.
They reproduce the very rapture of those crises of
conversion of which we have been hearing; they utter what the mystic felt but was unable to communicate; and the saint,
in hearing them, recognizes his own
experience.