Books written by David W. Kling

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  A History of Christian Conversion

  David Frawley, a Hindu convert from Catholicism, echoed these criticisms by calling any organized effort by Christian missionaries to convert others “psychological violence,” an “ideological assault,” a form of “religious violence and ...

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  A History of Christian Conversion

  6; and Eamon Duffy, “The Long Reformation: Catholicism, Protestantism, and the Multitude,” in Tyacke, England's Long Reformation, 1500–1800, 36. William Perkins, quoted in Duffy, “Long Reformation,” 29. Quoted in Collinson, Religion of ...

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  The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times

  Anthony Meredith, “Asceticism—Christian and Greek,” in Acts of Piety in the Early Church, vol. 17 of SEC, 175; Campenhausen, “Early Christian Asceticism,” 205; Hengel, Property and Riches in the Early Church, 51. 37.

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  A History of Christian Conversion

  Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in ...

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  The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times

  In this book, Kling traces the story of how specific biblical texts have emerged to be the inspiration of movements and collective responses that have changed the course of history.

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  The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times

  ... vol. 38a, Romans 9–16, vol. 38b, WBC (Dallas: Word Books, 1988); James D. G. Dunn and Alan M. Suggate, The Justice of God: A Fresh Look at the Old Doctrine of Justification by Faith (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994). 90. This ...