include a call to repent? In slightly different terms, is repentance really a part of the gospel itself? John Calvin did, of course, talk in just such terms: ‘[W]ith good reason, the sum of the gospel is held to consist in repentance and forgiveness of sins’.2 N. T. Wright, however, differs, famously commenting that the gospel is the proclamation that Jesus is Lord.3 More broadly, the systematic issue at stake is whether a human being needs to repent to be saved. A key practical issue here is how