metanoia
/ˌmɛtəˈnɔɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Change in one’s way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion: what he demanded of people was metanoia, repentance, a complete change of heart...
- The biblical word for conversion, metanoia, means not just a shift in one's views or opinions but a fundamental change in direction.
- It involves metanoia, which we translate as repentance - a complete change of direction.
- One reads of ‘heterosexists’ but not ‘homosexists’; one reads of the ‘gospel’ and metanoia but never finds either word defined.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek, from metanoein 'change one's mind'.
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