Jump to content

List of converts to Christianity: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
rv- There is a talk page- use that when you want to tell editors how to handle the article; don't place these things in the article itself.
→‎From Judaism: Untrue and unsourced and slanderous information should be removed IMMEDIATELY: Dylan is NOT a convert to Christianity, and does NOT belong on this list.
Line 144: Line 144:
[[Image:Tamsin_Greig.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Tamsin Greig]], [[England|English]] convert from Judaism to Christianity]]
[[Image:Tamsin_Greig.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Tamsin Greig]], [[England|English]] convert from Judaism to Christianity]]
* [[Alfred Döblin]] - [[Germany|German]] writer
* [[Alfred Döblin]] - [[Germany|German]] writer
* [[Bob Dylan]] - popular musician (current religious status disputed)<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/121/43.0.html ''Bob Dylan Finds His Source''], from ''Christianity Today,'' Noel Paul Stookey, January 4, 1980; [http://web.utk.edu/~wparr/KennGulliksen04251999.html]; [http://rightwingbob.com/weblog/archives/976]; [http://www.bobdylan.com/etc/ajacobs.html]; [http://www.lariat.org/AtTheMovies/dvd/dylan2.html]; [http://www.canadianchristianity.com/cgi-bin/bc.cgi?bc/bccn/0901/artdylan]; [http://www.classicbands.com/dylan.html]; [http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Bob_Dylan/7795/p1/]; [http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/4758.htm]</ref>
* [[Bob Dylan]] - Untrue and unsourced and slanderous information should be removed IMMEDIATELY: Dylan is NOT a convert to Christianity, and does NOT belong on this list. <ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/121/43.0.html ''Bob Dylan Finds His Source''], from ''Christianity Today,'' Noel Paul Stookey, January 4, 1980; [http://web.utk.edu/~wparr/KennGulliksen04251999.html]; [http://rightwingbob.com/weblog/archives/976]; [http://www.bobdylan.com/etc/ajacobs.html]; [http://www.lariat.org/AtTheMovies/dvd/dylan2.html]; [http://www.canadianchristianity.com/cgi-bin/bc.cgi?bc/bccn/0901/artdylan]; [http://www.classicbands.com/dylan.html]; [http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Bob_Dylan/7795/p1/]; [http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/4758.htm]</ref>
* [[Alfred Edersheim]] - Biblical scholar<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=759&letter=C] ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906</ref>
* [[Alfred Edersheim]] - Biblical scholar<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=759&letter=C] ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906</ref>
* [[Rachel (actress)|Rachel Felix]] - French-Swiss theatre actress<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=759&letter=C] ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906</ref>
* [[Rachel (actress)|Rachel Felix]] - French-Swiss theatre actress<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=759&letter=C] ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906</ref>

Revision as of 11:57, 26 April 2007

Part of a series on
Christianity
Principal symbol of Christianity
Theology
Nicene
Restorationist
Related topics

The following is a list of people who have converted to Christianity from non-Christian religions.

List of converts to Christianity

From Agnosticism or Atheism

From Buddhism

File:Paris-Emperor Bao Dai.jpg
Bảo Đại, convert from Buddhism to Christianity.

From Hinduism

From Islam

The World Christian Encyclopedia estimates that, within the United States, there may be as many as twenty thousand converts from Islam to Christianity every year.[1] Additionally, Ahmad Al-Katani suggests in an interview on Aljazeera that in Africa, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity every year.[2] Furthermore, although there are Christian converts in the Middle East, there are currently no definitive figures available as Christian converts are usually persecuted in this region (and may keep their conversion hidden from society), and therefore can not be reliably numbered.[3]

Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina, a convert from Islam to Christianity.

From Judaism

The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity (which it calls "Greek Catholicism").[7] Some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year, — 1,000 in Austria Hungary (Galizian Poland), 1,000 in Russia (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania), 500 in Germany (Posen), and the remainder in the English world.

File:1st Earl of Beaconsfield.jpg
Benjamin Disraeli, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Tamsin Greig, English convert from Judaism to Christianity
Georg Jellinek, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Paul of Tarsus, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
File:JCR Jerusalem.jpg
Joel C. Rosenberg, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
File:Mordechai Vanunu.jpg
Mordechai Vanunu, convert from Judaism to Christianity.

From Manichaeanism

From Paganism

File:Bateme de Clovis par St Remy.jpg
Statue of baptism of Clovis I, a convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Constantine I, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
File:JomoKenyatta.gif
Jomo Kenyatta, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Rollo of Normandy, convert from Paganism to Christianity.

From Rastafarianism

From Shintoism

Duleep Singh, convert from Sikhism to Christianity.

From Sikhism

From Taoism

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ Barret, David, cited in Duin, Julia. "Daring Leaps of Faith". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2006-08-13..
  2. ^ [1] , [2](Video) for english translation, see [3], [4]
  3. ^ [5]
  4. ^ Daveed Gartenstein-Ross biography on his website
  5. ^ [6]
  6. ^ [7]
  7. ^ [8]
  8. ^ Alexander's Apostasy: First Steps to Jerusalem. by Brian Taylor, from the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
  9. ^ "Alphonsi, Petrus." Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  10. ^ "Baena, Juan Alfonso De." Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  11. ^ [9] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  12. ^ [10] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  13. ^ Gregorovius, Ferdinand. Rome in the Middle Ages Vol. IV Part 1. 1905.
  14. ^ [11] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  15. ^ www.nndb.com/people/278/000025203/
  16. ^ [12] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  17. ^ [13] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  18. ^ [14] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  19. ^ [15] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  20. ^ [16] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  21. ^ [17] A Breakout Voice in Christian Broadcasting. Denver Post. Apr. 15, 2007.
  22. ^ [18] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  23. ^ [19] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  24. ^ Hamy, Bulletin de Géographie, 1891, pp. 218-222.
  25. ^ [20] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  26. ^ [21] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  27. ^ Robert Blake, Disraeli, 3. Norman Gash, reviewing Blake's work, argued that Benjamin's claim to Spanish ancestry could not be entirely dismissed. Norman Gash, review of Disraeli, by Robert Blake. The English Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 327. (Apr., 1968), 360-364.
  28. ^ Bob Dylan Finds His Source, from Christianity Today, Noel Paul Stookey, January 4, 1980; [22]; [23]; [24]; [25]; [26]; [27]; [28]; [29]
  29. ^ [30] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  30. ^ [31] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  31. ^ Brian Dutton, Joaquín González Cuenca (editors), Cancionero de Juan Alfonso de Baena (Madrid: Visor Libros, 1993), 534-544.
  32. ^ [32] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  33. ^ Arthur Mandel: The Militant Messiah: The Story of Jacob Frank and the Frankists: Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press: 1979: ISBN 0-391-00973-7.
  34. ^ [33] Friedberg, Heinrich, von) Jewish Encyclopedia
  35. ^ [34] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  36. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Gans, Eduard.
  37. ^ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/11/lkl.00.html CNN Larry King Live. May 11, 2000. In this interview, Gifford indicates she went to church as a child and was raised in a mixed religious home; http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/21/lkl.01.html CNN Larry King Live. May 21, 2004. In this interview, Gifford indicates she never converted, because she is a "fulfilled Jew."
  38. ^ [www.tv.com/tamsin-greig/person/57963/biography.html www.tv.com/tamsin-greig/person/57963/biography.html]
  39. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340067/bio
  40. ^ [35] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  41. ^ [36] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  42. ^ [37] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  43. ^ Kristó Gyula – Makk Ferenc: Az Árpád-ház uralkodói (I.P.C., 1996, ISBN 963-7930-97-3).
  44. ^ Carvajal, Mario. Vida y pasión de Jorge Isaacs. Manizales, 1937.
  45. ^ [38] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  46. ^ Duncan Kelly, "Revisiting the Rights of Man: Georg Jellinek on Rights and the State". Law and History Review vol. 22, no. 3 (Fall 2004).
  47. ^ A Brief Biography of Paul S.L. Johnson from the Present Truth Library, which catalogues the works of Paul S.L. Johnson.
  48. ^ [39] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  49. ^ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=87&letter=K Kanitz, Felix Philipp] Jewish Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906.
  50. ^ [40] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  51. ^ [41] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  52. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Lehrs, Karl.
  53. ^ Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0. p. 200.
  54. ^ [42] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  55. ^ [43] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  56. ^ [44] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  57. ^ [45] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  58. ^ [46] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  59. ^ [47] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  60. ^ http://bpsports.net/bpsports.asp?ID=5477
  61. ^ [48] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  62. ^ [49] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  63. ^ [50] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  64. ^ [51] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  65. ^ [52] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  66. ^ [53] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  67. ^ [54] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  68. ^ [55] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
  69. ^ [56] Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_converts_to_Christianity&oldid=126120491"