By Strange Ways: Theologians and Their Paths to the Catholic Church - Paperback

by Jonathan Fuqua (Editor), Daniel Strudwick (Editor)

The only work that exclusively features the conversion stories of theologians, this book provides a unique vantage point on the intellectual challenges faced by those being drawn to the Catholic Church.

The men and women featured here come from a variety of backgrounds: Agnosticism, Secularism, New Age thought, punk rock, and various stripes of Christianity. Their theological vocation had specially prompted them to question their own intellectual presuppositions once they encountered Catholicism, which only gained in credibility the more they studied it.

Although it was the theological truth of the Catholic faith that initially captured the attention of these theologians, each of these essays tells a fully human story. They are not collections of arguments, but stories of grace. Among the ten converts are Scott Hahn, Lawrence Feingold, Melanie Barrett, Petroc Willey, and Jeff Morrow. Each story offers a fresh glimpse at God's work in the world.

Author Biography

Dr. Jonathan Fuqua is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Conception Seminary College. He is the co-editor of Faith and Reason: Philosophers Explain Their Turn to Catholicism (Ignatius, 2019) and has published several articles in academic journals, such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, and the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. Together with his wife, Angela, he has five children; they were received into the Catholic Church in 2017.

Daniel Strudwick is a professor of theology at Quincy University. He has an S.T.B. from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and a Ph.D. in theology from Duquesne University.