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metanoia|mɛtəˈnɔɪə|
[Gr. µετάνοια, f. µετανοεῖν to change one's mind, to repent.]
Penitence, repentance; reorientation of one's way of life, spiritual conversion.
1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vii. 196 Of ‘metanoia’, as Jesus used the word, the lamenting one's sins was a small part; the main part was something more active and fruitful, the setting up an immense new inward movement for obtaining the rule of life. And ‘metanoia’, accordingly, is: a change of the inner man. 1881Amer. Church Rev. July 167 What a Metanoia was there, to both Jesus and John!.. And what a Metanoia had come also upon the disciples of John and upon Israel! 1918Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 733/2 ‘Repentance’ has an emotional tone; µετάνοια is ethical and intellectual; the former is negative—a turning away from sin; the latter is positive—an enthusiasm for righteousness. 1939V. A. Demant Relig. Prospect ix. 237 If we understand St. Paul's use of the word ‘spiritual’, not in our misleading sense of ‘non-material’ but as the nature of a creature turned to God, we see how this metanoia, this turning about, brings a restored understanding of the order of human powers and faculties. 1945A. Huxley Let. 10 Apr. (1969) 520 Virgil's metanoia was in the nature of a death-bed repentance. 1969F. de Graeve in J. Kerkhofs Mod. Mission Dialogue p. xvi, It must reveal the Church..as the community in which the religious intentionality of all people can blossom into that newness of life that is the real metanoia. 1973E. Powell No Easy Answers xii. 123 To entertain this idea and to be penetrated with it is the change of mind, repentance, metanoia, of which the baptist was not the announcer but the forerunner. |