Repentance and Forgiveness

L. Gregory Jones

11/18/04

TH 291

Introduction – Words To Identify the Themes

• movement / journey (growth) / process
• practice (embodied)
• baptism
• catechesis / pedagogy
• transformation
• companionship / relational
• desire
• discipline

General Discussion

Practices are not something that individual self has picked (human construction) to grow spiritual but they are a given within Christian faith.

theological anthropology

• created in image of God
• role of sin in impacting our reflection of God

Cannot experience absence without experiencing presence

likeness / unlikeness

presence / absence

p. 197 – missing page

• Fountain illustration
• Vessel in the fountain
• Hold it in the fountain as you drink, it will not be empty
• Love of neighbor is to be drunk in me so you do not lose interest

Catechesis

General inquiror

• learn by observing / participating

Lent – move toward more serious

• memory – focus on summations of Christian doctrines