13 sentences with 'convert'
Example sentences and phrases with the word convert and other words derived from it.
• « If Jesus was indeed the specifically Jewish messiah, after all, it made no sense that a Roman, a Persian or a Celt could convert. »
• « Thus, whereas early Christianity had been a religion of the common people, Roman elites flocked to convert after Constantine did so in order to stay in the emperor's good graces. »
• « Justinian insisted that all teachers and tutors convert to Christianity and renounce their teaching of the Greek classics; when they refused in 528, he closed Plato's Academy, which had then operated for almost 1,000 years. »
• « The Bulgarians were consistently able to defeat the Byzantine armies and occupied territory taken from the Byzantine Empire, yet Boris I chose to convert (and insist that his followers do so as well) to Christianity. »
• « St. Cyril then translated the Greek liturgy into Slavic and used it to teach and convert the inhabitants of Moravia and Bulgaria. »
• « Muhammad was not very successful in Mecca in his initial preaching. The temples of the many gods there were rich and powerful, and the people resented Muhammad's attempts to convert them to his new religion, largely because he was asking them to set aside centuries of religious tradition. »
• « Moreover, the Arabs made little effort to convert non-Arabs to Islam for several generations after the initial conquests. »
• « Members of other monotheistic religions who chose not to convert were often much freer to practice their religions than they would have been in Christian lands, because the Umayyads simply did not care about theological disagreements between their Jewish and Christian subjects as long as taxes were paid. »
• « Christianity demonstrated remarkable power to convert even peoples who had previously proved militarily stronger than Christian opponents, from the Germanic invaders who had dismantled the western empire to the Slavic peoples who fought Byzantium to a stalemate. »
• « They were authorised by various popes not only to conquer and convert but to rule the peoples of the eastern Baltic and thus by the 13th century the Teutonic knights were in the process of conquering and ruling Prussia, parts of Estonia and a region of southeastern Finland and present-day Lithuania called Livonia. »
• « The Mongols established a kingdom known as Il-Khanate in Persia in 1256, but it was not until 1295 that the Mongol ruler Ghazan, the first to convert to Islam, shifted Mongol priorities from plundering expeditions to more conventional government and taxation. »
• « In turn, the existence of a surplus encouraged feudal lords to convert payment in kind (i.e. taxes and rents paid in real food and livestock) into cash rent. »
• « Filled with crusader zeal, they immediately set about eradicating "heretics" such as the kingdom's large Jewish population, forcing the Jews to convert to Catholicism or leave the kingdom that same year. In 1502 they gave the same ultimatum to the hundreds of thousands of Muslims as well. »