Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Conversion and Converts (Catholic) (Index Page)



St. Edith Stein: convert from Judaism (1891-1942)

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Individual Conversions

SHORTER PAPERS

Marvelous DVD / Audio / Written Catholic Conversion Resources / Recent Lutheran Converts to Catholicism and Orthodoxy

Newman's Conversion Story in His Own Words (Brief)
[Spanish version]

G.K. Chesterton's Conversion Story

Ronald Knox's Conversion Story

Malcolm Muggeridge's Conversion Story

Thoughts on "Pontificator's" (Fr. Al Kimel's) Conversion to Catholicism and Ecumenism

The Price of Conversion to Catholicism (Former Episcopal Priest Al Kimel, aka the "Pontificator")

Another "Lousy Catholic" Convert to Protestantism

On Irrational Hostility to Catholic Conversion Stories (Particularly Scott Hahn's) (Dave Armstrong vs. John Lowell)

Prominent Evangelical Philosopher and Ethicist Dr. Francis J. Beckwith Has Returned to the Catholic Church (+ Discussion)

Reply (at His Request) to James White's Aspersions Upon Dr. Francis Beckwith With Regard to the Latter's Return to the Catholic Church (+ Discussion)

Is Dr. Francis Beckwith Being Personally (Not Just Theologically) Maligned and Attacked for Becoming a Catholic? You be the Judge (+ Discussion)

"Orthodox" Lutheran Internet Apologist Darel E. Paul "Popes" / Lutheran Apologist Josh S's Ingenious Rationalizing Explanation of Catholic Converts

Another High-Profile Conversion to the Catholic Church: Lutheran Philosopher Robert C. Koons (+ Discussion)

Bill Cork's Catholic-to-Adventist Conversion: If You Have No Reason to Stay in a Communion, or to Join Another, Why Stay (or Leave?) (+ Discussion)

Former Catholic, Now (Again) Adventist Bill Cork's Bad Reasons For Leaving Catholicism (Redux) (+ Discussion)

LONGER PAPERS

Yet Another Lying, Dishonest Catholic Convert: John Henry Newman (+ Part II)

Why I Returned to the Catholic Church: Including a Searching Examination of Various Flaws and Errors in the Protestant Worldview and Approach to Christian Living (Al Kresta; edited and transcribed by Dave Armstrong)

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My Conversion

SHORTER PAPERS (AND TALKS)

My Odyssey From Evangelicalism to Catholicism (original Surprised by Truth version) [Spanish version]

My conversion story, from a 28-minute radio interview (8 September 1997)

Second spoken account of my conversion story, from a forty-minute radio interview on 30 April 2002 (Parts One | Two | Three | Four)

My Conversion to the Catholic Church (Transcript of a Radio Interview with Al Kresta)

My Conversion Story in a Nutshell (+ Funny Baptism Trivia)

Neither Fish Nor Fowl: My "Hybrid" (??) Post-Conversion Faith (+ Discussion)

Am I a "Protestantizing" Catholic Now Or Was I Formerly a "Catholicizing" Protestant? (+ Discussion)

Yet Another James White Hit Piece / Correction of Erroneous Blurb Concerning My Catholic Conversion (+ Discussion)

I Certainly Waited (To Do Apologetics After My Conversion to Catholicism) (+ Discussion)

Reply to Nice Words From a Protestant Critic, With Corrections Concerning My "Superficial" and "Anti-Intellectual" (??) Evangelical Protestant Past

LONGER PAPERS

How Newman Convinced me of the Apostolicity of the Catholic Church

The Epistemology of My Conversion / My (Protestant) Letter to Karl Keating in 1990 / How I Became an Apologist

Gratefulness For My Evangelical Protestant Background and the Wonderful Teachings and Blessings Obtained Therefrom (Rev. Dick Bieber et al)

150 Reasons Why I am a Catholic (Revised)
[Spanish version] [Portugese version]

A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


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The One-Minute Apologist


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General Observations

SHORTER PAPERS

Potential Converts One Way or Another: My "Hands Off" Approach

Conversion to Catholicism: General Observations (Pelikan, Belloc, Chesterton)

Recommended Books For New or Prospective Catholic Converts [Links Page]

"Official" Catholic Use of the Term "Convert" to Describe Non-Catholic Christians Who Are Received Into the Church

Dialogue: Is This Why You Converted (to Catholicism)? (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Schlissel)

Latest Wiseacre Theory on Catholic Conversion: Filthy Lucre

Presbyterian Church Historian Mark Noll on Differences in Converts

Random Thoughts on Conversion, Development of Doctrine, Ecumenism, Etc.

Catholic Fundamentalism and "Insufficiently Converted Catholics"

Ruminations on the Pain and Difficulty of Mixed (Catholic-Protestant) Marriages

LONGER PAPERS

Catholic Mariology, Authority, and Various Other Qualms of Protestants Considering Conversion

Conversion to Catholicism: Is It Usually Essentially Reactionary & Emotional, or Proactive & Rational? (+ Part II)

St. Augustine's Confessions as the Prototype of Today's Widely Disseminated Catholic Conversion Stories (+ Discussion)

Response to Anglican Edwin Tait, on Conversion and Historical Ecclesiological Arguments

Second Reply to Anglican Edwin Tait on Historical Ecclesiological Arguments and Development of Doctrine

Reply to James White's Top Ten Questions for "Romanist" Converts (+ Discussion)

The Anti-Convert, Anti-Apologetics, Anti-Newman Mentality of the Reformed Catholicism Blog (Dave Armstrong vs. Kevin Johnson)

Presbyterian Polemicist Tim Enloe's Severe Criticisms of Catholic Converts

Tim Enloe: "Vast Majority" of Catholic Conversion Stories Are "Essentially Snake-Oil" (+ Discussion)

Tim Enloe: "Many" Catholic Converts Are "Very Insecure People" and Suffer From a "Deep Immaturity" -- and Apologists Are "Arrogant, Foolish People" (+ Discussion)

My Criticisms of Tim Enloe's Modus Operandi and Excoriation of Catholic Converts Discussed At Length on His Blog, While I Am Banned (+ Discussion)

St. Augustine's Confessions as the Prototype of Today's Widely Disseminated Catholic Conversion Stories (+ Tim Enloe's Odd Inconsistencies) (+ Discussion)

Presbyterian Polemicist Tim Enloe's Pathetic Elitism and Snobbishness Over Against Laymen and Apologetics and Non-Academic Study is Revealed Yet Again (+ Discussion)

Tim Enloe's Latest Quasi-Anti-Catholic Remarks: Catholicism is "Gnostic", "Utterly Subjective", "Stupid", Dishonest About History, Etc.

Sweeping Attacks From Presbyterian Polemicist Tim Enloe, on Catholic Converts, Catholic Apologists, and Protestant Charismatics (Like He Used to Be)

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