List of Former Atheists and Agnostics - Former Agnostics - Agnostics Who Converted To Christianity

Agnostics Who Converted To Christianity

• Bernard Nathanson Doctor, author, abortionist and co-founder of NARAL. After seeing an ultrasound of a late term abortion he recanted and converted to Catholicism.
• Mortimer J. Adler – American philosopher, educator, and popular author. He converted to Catholicism after decades of interest in Thomism.
• Paul Bourget – French author who became agnostic and positivist at 15, but returned to Catholicism at 35.
• Bruce Cockburn - Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer/songwriter. (former agnostic)
• Avery Dulles – A Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was raised Presbyterian, but was an agnostic before his conversion to Catholic Christianity.
• Dawn Eden – Rock journalist of Jewish ethnicity who went from an agnostic to a Catholic writer, who was particularly concerned with the moral values of chastity.
• C. E. M. Joad – English philosopher whose arguing against Christianity earned him criticism from T. S. Eliot. He turned toward religion later, writing The Recovery of Belief a year before he died and returning to Christianity.
• C.S. Lewis - British novelist, literary critic, and professor of medieval literature.
• Arnold Lunn – A skier, mountaineer, and writer. As an agnostic he wrote Roman Converts, which took a critical view of Catholicism and the converts to it. He later converted to Catholicism due to debating with converts, and became an apologist for the faith, although he retained a few criticisms of the faith.
• Gabriel Marcel – A leading Christian existentialist. His upbringing was agnostic.
• Vittorio Messori – An Italian journalist and writer called the "most translated Catholic writer in the world" by Sandro Magister.
• Malcolm Muggeridge – British journalist and author who went from agnosticism to the Catholic Church.
• Joseph Pearce – An anti-Catholic and agnostic British National Front member who became a devout Catholic writer with a series on EWTN.
• Charles Péguy - French poet, essayist, and editor. He went from agnostic humanist to a pro-Republic Catholic.
• John Lawson Stoddard – Divinity student turned "Scientific humanist" turned Catholic. His son Lothrop Stoddard remained agnostic and would be significant to Scientific racism.
• Sigrid Undset - Norwegian Nobel laureate who converted to Catholicism from agnosticism.
• Evelyn Waugh – British novelist who converted to Catholicism from agnosticism.