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Book SynopsisThis addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word. James Prothro offers a biblical theology of the sacrament of reconciliation--the restoration of the sinner through forgiveness and repentance. Prothro fleshes out the patterns in which God's people in the Old and New Testaments approach the merciful God, confess, and are forgiven and called to reengage their relationship with God by growing in faith and love through God's ministry of grace. Series editors are Timothy C. Gray and John Sehorn. Gray and Sehorn teach at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology, which prepares students for Christian mission through on-campus and distance-education programs. Gray is also president of the Augustine Institute.
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
1. Confession and Reconciliation:
An Encounter with Divine Mercy2. Sin, Mercy, and Promise:
Foundations in Genesis 1-113. Mercy, Penalty, and Mediation:
The Patriarchs and the Exodus4. Rebuke and Promise for Israel:
Kings and Prophets5. Confession, Restoration, and Penance:
Psalms and Sages6. Confessing in Hope, Awaiting the Messiah
7. Jesus and the Mission of Restoration
8. Christ, the Spirit, and the Ministry of Forgiveness
9. Be Reconciled to God!
Sin and Restoration in the Pauline Letters10. Growing in Christ, Confessing in Hope:
The Catholic Epistles and Revelation11. The Manifold Mercy of God
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