Sentences with phrase «profound conversion experience»

Kelly was a philosophy professor and a Quaker who wrote this book after undergoing a profound conversion experience.

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I have, perhaps, undergone a profound experience of conversion and transformation; but can I be sure that it is really the very presence of God's Holy Spirit that I have experienced?

(I Corinthians 15:29) The profoundest experiences of Christian conversion — especially remission of sins, (Acts 2:38; I Peter 3:21) the death of the old life and the resurrection of the new, (Romans 6:2 - 4; Colossians 2:12) and incorporation into the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13, 27; Ephesians 4:4 - 5)-- were associated with baptism.

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.

The pope also asks the provocative question: «Is not this same attachment at the heart of what I have called a «dialogue of conversions Is it not precisely this dialogue which clearly shows the need for an ever more profound experience of the truth if full communion is to be attained?»

Without a profound, existential religious experience of conversion one could not be a Christian.