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Conversion Works

Name: Conversion Works
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Author: Allen Jeffrey A. Allen
ISBN: 9781532688768

by Allen Jeffrey A. Allen

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126 pages
Publisher: Cascade Books
14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm

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For students exploring deep questions of faith

Examines how classic works spark true conversion

Helps you reflect on your own personal worldview

An insightful study exploring how significant literary and film works can lead an individual to spiritual conversion.

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In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the book examines four works: Augustine of Hippo's Confessions, René Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, Bernard Lonergan's Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show. The main argument of this book is that all four works contain and induce conversion. That is, all four works feature an individual who abandons a worldview and starts over, and all four works exhort their engager to do the same. This book also explores the works' requirement of cognitive imitation, wherein a person replicates the mental activities of the individual who has a conversion in the work, and of private engagement, wherein a person reads or views the work while alone. The book concludes with an argument for the educational value of the four works that appropriates Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death.