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Between 1648 and 1649, a large-scale uprising of Cossacks and Ukrainian peasants led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky swept through the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the area of today's Ukraine. In the course of the fighting, there were many Jewish casualties, and many Jewish communities were destroyed. A large number also converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
The conversion of the Jews plays a part in dispensationalist thinking. Hal Lindsey, one of the most popular American promoters of dispensationalism, has written in The Late Great Planet Earth that per Ezekiel , after Jews fight off a "Russian" invasion, Jews will see this as a miracle and convert to Christianity. [13]
"The Conversion of the Jews", 1958 short story by Phillip Roth, included in the collection Goodbye, Columbus Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Conversion of the Jews .
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics. The sociology of religion indicates religious conversion was an important factor in the emergence of ...
From Constantine I, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire, the position of Christians to Jews changed.Some laws were instituted which protected the rights of Jewish converts from disinheritance, other laws also protected from abuse of the privileges of conversion from those who converted from Judaism "only for a cancellation of debt;" which suggests that in some ...
According to historian Shaye J. D. Cohen, "the separation of Christianity from Judaism was a process, not an event", in which the church became "more and more gentile, and less and less Jewish". [138] [note 14] According to Cohen, early Christianity ceased to be a Jewish sect when it ceased to observe Jewish practices, such as circumcision. [25]
A number of Christian denominations have programs to reach Jews. [8] The JTA, a Jewish news service, conducted an extensive analysis of Christian efforts to convert Jews to Christianity [9] and found that some of the largest evangelical denominations – the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God, and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod – have all increased their efforts to evangelize ...