Repentance in Christian TheologyMark J. Boda, Gordon T. Smith Liturgical Press, 2006 - 425 pages This collection of essays on the theme of repentance/penitence emerged from an assembly of biblical scholars, systematic theologians, and church historians at the 2003-2004 meetings of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature. Walter Brueggemann, one of the respondents to the project, calls this collection a wondrous and rich collage of historical and contemporary probes into the specific teachings and practices of penitence. This volume is a major resource for the interpretation, theology, and practice of communal and individual penitence. Each chapter begins with the examination of a particular aspect of the theme 'repentance in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts, private confession in the German Reformation, a Pentecostal understanding of penitence, the Catholic call to conversion. Implications of that aspect to the overall theme are given, along with a list of further readings and interpretative reflections by the assembly on the results of the project. This volume gives teachers, preachers, and serious students of theology an exhaustive source of information and inspiration for renewing the initial call of Jesus to Repent and believe in the Gospel (Mark 1:15). Mark J. Boda, Ph.D., is a professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. One of his areas of expertise is the penitential prayer tradition in the Old Testament. Gordon T. Smith, Ph.D., is president of reSource Leadership International and an adjunct lecturer in spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia. His interests include the nature of conversion and spiritual discernment. |
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... Repentance and Confession John Chryssavgis 211 11. Life as a Holy Penitent : The Catholic Call to Conversion Ralph Del Colle 231 12. A Confessing Faith : Assent and Penitence in the Reformation Traditions of Luther , Calvin , and Bucer ...
... called exegetical theology , will always have opportunity to call into question the results of those engaged in the study of the general , which is systematic theology , and also vice versa . However , when such tension results in ...
... Repent- ance in the Torah and the Prophets , " Numbers , JPSTC ( Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society , 1990 ) 397 , who writes : " wherever repentance occurs in the early narratives , it is a human virtue . God does not call upon ...
... call to return both before and after the incorporation of Deuteronomy into the narrative.10 304 . Terence E. Fretheim , Exodus , Int ( Louisville : John Knox , 1991 ) 308 ; see also However , Fretheim does not explain adequately the ...
... call ( in an oral lecture at my university ) " Privileged Cognitive Access , " that is , an ability shaped by our ideology , theology , and experience to see things in a text that are indiscernible to others . Of course , I had my ...
Contents
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Penitence and Repentance in the Epistles Stanley E Porter | 127 |
Penitence in Early Christianity in Its Historical and Theological | 153 |
Eastern Orthodox Perspectives | 211 |
The Catholic Call to Conversion | 231 |
Assent and Penitence in the Reformation | 251 |
An Evangelical Perspective | 267 |
Middle Eastern Perspectives and Expressions | 307 |
Penitence as Practiced in AfricanAfrican American | 329 |
A Reflection | 347 |
Implications of This Books Insights | 371 |
The Jolly Penitent Religious Leadership | 387 |
List of Contributors | 395 |
Author and Name Index | 403 |
Index of Biblical and ExtraBiblical Citations | 411 |