6 sentences with 'converting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word converting and other words derived from it.
• « The Gnostics had no interest in converting people to their version of Christianity; it was a secret they wanted to keep to themselves. »
• « In 325 CE, only a little more than a decade after converting to Christianity, Constantine assembled a council of church leaders, the Council of Nicaea. One of the results was the Nicene Creed (now known as the Apostles' Creed), which to this day is one of the central elements of the Catholic mass. »
• « By converting to Latin Christianity, Clovis ensured that the Goths' subjects would welcome him as a liberator rather than a foreign invader. He was proved right, and by 507 the Franks controlled almost all of Gaul, including the formerly Gothic territories along the frontier. »
• « King Charlemagne waged constant wars during his long reign (which lasted more than 40 years) in the name of converting non-Christian Germans to his east and, equally, in the name of confiscating booty for his followers. »
• « The Baltic lands were the last major region of Europe to remain pagan. Neither the Latin nor the Orthodox missionaries had made significant progress in converting the peoples of the region outside the border region between the Rus' lands and the Baltic Sea. »
• « Also like Louis XIV, James II practised a strict and intolerant form of Roman Catholicism after converting from Protestantism in the late 1660s. »