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The Feasts of Repentance: From Luke-Acts to Systematic and Pastoral Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In gospel proclamation today, the critical New Testament element of repentance can be far too often ignored, minimalized, or dismissed. Yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself, and those he commissioned to spread his gospel all spoke of the urgent need to repent. Michael Ovey was convinced that a gospel without repentance quickly distorts our view of God, ourselves, and each other by undermining...

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
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