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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...

corpus, and space precludes us here dealing with all the New Testament repentance texts. Three observations arise connected with this need to focus on Luke-Acts: first, concerning terminology; second, concerning argument by narrative; and third, the focus on people who repent rather than the concept. First, concerning terminology. What counts as a reference to ‘repentance’? Calvin was not content simply to be confined to the term metanoia and its cognates as the
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