From Darkness To Light <subTitle>Aspects of conversion in the New Testament</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Gaventa, Beverly Roberts</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">1:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">Philadelphia, U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1986</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>160tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>First published in 1986. By examining key biblical texts, especially in Luke-Acts, Paul, John, and 1 Peter, Gaventa aims to learn what conversion and transformation mean in the context of first-century Christianity and to compare that with understandings of being `born again.`</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Beverly Roberts Gaventa</note> <subject> <topic>Conversion -- Biblical teaching</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- New Testament -- Critique</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- New Testament -- Criticism</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">248.24</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B571-G28</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0800615458</identifier> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">1</recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2021-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070358.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>