(en) The texts of the New Testament were written at a time when the modern concept of religion did not exist, and when relations with the gods were thought of on the model of politics. Conversion therefore signifies a change of loyalty, a change of alliance, expressed more often in the language of space than in that of psychology.
Burnet, R. (2023). La conversion dans le Nouveau Testament – Une fausse proximité. Communio : revue catholique internationale, 2023/6(290), 32-45. https://doi.org/10.3917/commun.290.0032 (Original work published 2023)