This traditional account of the conversion, however, has been questioned by scholars, especially because of the echoes of the conversion of Constantine that Gregory so clearly incorporated in his history.
Narayan gives us in The Financial Expert a striking account of the conversion of a mean-spirited person to the single-minded worship of money.
Three years later, Lewis would expand on the subject in his memoir Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, the account of his conversion to Christianity.
In his second book, "A Testimonial to Grace," a 1946 account of his conversion, Cardinal Dulles said his doubts about God on entering Harvard were not diminished by his studies of medieval art, philosophy and theology.
"I considered it a proved fact that the sufficient cause of the whole universe was physical matter," he wrote in "A Testimonial to Grace," a 1946 account of his conversion to Catholicism in 1940.
Meanwhile, a Jewish man whose wife had converted to Judaism before their marriage was heard weeping as he told how their child had been denied entry to a school, JFS, in London, on account of the conversion.
His Exomologesis, an account of his conversion, appeared in Paris in 1647; he also wrote Church-History of Brittany or England, from the Beginning of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (1668) and several controversial tracts.
He had already turned to the Christian faith - his account of his conversion is very moving - and, like some other Russian Orthodox clerics of the Soviet period, he studied theology while practising medicine, professing monastic vows in 1943 and being ordained to the priesthood five years later.
(Anita Gates)20091224 'CIRCUMCISE ME' Yisrael Campbell's highly entertaining account of his conversion to Judaism — not once but three times — is elevated beyond shtick by the recognition that, aside from the jokes, this is Mr. Campbell's life, and that his quest for a "relationship with God" continues even after the house lights rise (1 30).
Almost 25 years ago, Richard Gilman wrote a wonderful account of his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism and his subsequent loss of faith; what begins as a tale of finding faith becomes, amid Gilman's feeling that the church is stifling him sexually and intellectually, a story of "faith dissolved".
