As curator and art historian Germano Celant has observed, Mapplethorpe was deeply spiritual but he plunged headlong into the dark side of religion, courting something of a "Catholic inversion" characterised by an attraction to the demonic, the violent and the abject, all the while striving toward a vision of redemption, the conversion of suffering into grace through beauty, balance and stasis.
The redemptions and conversions will result in a $3 billion reduction in automotive debt, and lower annualized interest costs of about $190 million.
Only Evra knew what he was thinking about when he hung out a leg at Stanciu and Stancu sensed redemption with his penalty conversion.
Jabez's obscurity, textually and socially, makes him an ideal vehicle for the traditional American Christian narrative of conversion and redemption.
For those who practice intolerance, or preach it, perhaps like Saul their rejection of others will provide the key to their own conversion and redemption.
The film encompasses several different themes, including the importance of love and family, the possibility of spiritual resurrection amid death, and the concept of redemption through Mac Sledge's conversion to Christianity.
Marxist critics such as Guido Aristarco rejected the film on ideological grounds, particularly objecting to what they considered Christian notions of conversion and redemption: "We don't say, nor have we ever said, that La Strada is a badly directed and acted film.
And, while I appreciate the need to telescope the story, Walker's faith in the possibility of redemption leads to lightning conversions of character, along with the sense that all Celie's Christmases have suddenly come at once.
But there is another danger lurking in conversion narratives: stories of redemption are easy to construct and often difficult to verify.
But, in Christian terms, this needs a radical change of heart, a conversion; it needs another kind of "redemption", which frees us from the trap of an egotism that obscures judgement.
