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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... justice to the theological substance because there is no way to build a bridge from the neutral , descriptive content to the theological reality . " 1 that biblical interpretation should concern itself primarily with the theological ...
... justice ; God will not let the guilty go unpunished . At the same time , the only hope for a sinful people is the gracious character of YHWH and the participation of his mediatorial figure . Noteworthy is that , after YHWH's self ...
... justice to several aspects of the sacrificial system . Key for the consideration at hand is that at least some sacrifice was to be accompanied by a penitential dis- position , a point that was not lost on the ancient rabbis and that has ...
... justice . Baruch A. Levine , Leviticus , JPSTC ( Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society , 1989 ) 28 , takes the focus entirely off the confession : " The requirement of making confession is not the main thrust of this statement . The ...
... justice and wrath . Interestingly , however , the Torah places the emphasis on the theology of grace and love when speaking of repentance . This has implications not only for how we proclaim the gospel , but also how we explain the life ...
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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 |