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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... divine communicative act . Bibli- cal theology is a description of the biblical texts on levels that display their theological significance . Accordingly , biblical theology is nothing less than a theological hermeneutic : an ...
... divine forgiveness , but only God's unilateral initiative of grace secured through the mediatorial 5 Nahum M. Sarna , Exodus - Shemot , JPSTC ( Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society , 1991 ) 216 . " Although it is possible that this ...
... divine response to human remorse . Instead , in all three cases the accent is placed on the grace of the offended party ( whether human or divine ) , and in the last case on the importance of the mediator for securing a gracious ...
... divine plan , something made clear in 1:45 : " You returned and wept before YHWH , but he did not pay attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you . " Similarly , even the great mediator himself , Moses , is refused a divine ...
... divine activity . This is seen initially in the fact that the human penitential response , at the core of which is the term šûb , will be met with the reciprocal divine action of šûb as YHWH restores ( šûb ) them ( 30 : 3 ) 22 and ...
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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 |