THE TRUE AND GOSPEL WORD OF SALVATION. SPEAKING OF THE RETURN TO THE CONVERSION

Abstract

The ordinary meaning of conversion is the return of a sinner to God. In this sense, conversion has always been present in the Christian preaching and in Pastoral Theology. But if conversion were an incorporation to Christ and the Church from a religious tradition different from christianity, some difficulties would arise. The “return” to conversión refers to the new interest which Theology –specially Fundamental Theology- shows for the fact of conversion, after some time of mistrust. Christian conversiónis a personal event and, at the same time, a social and religious phenomenon. If conversión is understood as incorporation to Christ and the Church, there are four perspectives which have to be taken into account: christological, eclesiological, anthropological and social.