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A Response to Reviewers of A History of Christian Conversion

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David W. Kling offers a response to the essays by Ines Jindra, Dana Robert, and Joseph Lee in a book forum on his A History of Christian Conversion (2020). Following a discussion of the background to the research and writing of his book, Kling engages the disciplinary approaches of each author (Jindra’s sociological, Robert’s missiological, Lee’s historical), and concludes that his own approach relied in varying degrees upon these disciplines.

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  1. Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA

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Kling, D.W. A Response to Reviewers of A History of Christian Conversion. Pastoral Psychol 71, 801–805 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-022-01020-4

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