Repentance

The repentance is the public demonstration or towards God of the rather private feeling which is the Repentir . These word are sometimes employed in a synonymous way, the word repentance making it possible to make the difference with the verb repentance . The repentance is sometimes confused with a form of Masochisme justified by last faults. If not, she is sometimes seen with a painful negative connotation, but can be simply the recognition of a constructive sadness.

The word in English language ( repentance ) does not make the difference between repentance and repentance.

The English term (developed in anglophone Wikipedia) has also the direction to seek the forgiveness somebody . That can be then a False-friend.

The repentance and the religion

The repentance is recognized by the Judaïsme, the Christianisme and the Islam. The repentance is seen in a negative way in particular because it can be preceded by a Punition. Indeed, in certain companies of passed and today, one starts by punishing the indicated faulty one, then it is not rehabilitated that if it are repent.

The repentance took a new direction to speak for example about Jean-Paul II giving a report on a regret relative to acts made by the Église in the past admitted publicly like faults (see the article Péché) with the passing of the History.

The Église speaks about the repentance although from a theological point of view only the repentance can be Strictly speaking necessary; the repentance, by its public side, can however be seen like a request for reconciliation with the men in addition to God.

In certain cases, the repentance can be imposed like Pénitence. That can very well then not be true a repentance, i.e. accompanied by a sincere Repentir. That can be all the more comprehensible if there is no what repentance.

Repentance in Christianity

Models and criteria of comprehension

In the Catholic church, the international theological Commission distinguishes three models from gestures of repentance:

the liturgical Prayer of the Confiteor,
the Psalm S pénitentiels, especially those where Israel, with the depth of its suffering, of its misery, confesses the sins of its history, confesses the sins of his/her Fathers, its permanent rebellion since the beginnings of the history until the current moment;
prophetic warnings of the Apocalypse addressed to the seven Church S.

She also sees criteria of comprehension of the repentance:

recognition of the sins,
the Truth: to confess, that means, according to Saint Augustin, " to make the truth " , and thus implies especially the discipline and the humility of the truth.
purification: always according to Holy Augustin, a " confessio peccati " Christian woman will be always accompanied by a " confessio laudis ".

Concerning the Church compared to the history:

the first criterion implies that the Church of the present cannot be constituted in court which condemns the last generations;
the second criterion implies to deny in no manner the evil made in the Church, but also not to be allotted by a feigned humility of the sins which were not made, or those for which there does not exist yet of historical certainty.
the third criterion means that God purifies and renews always the Church, in spite of our sins, and thus makes large things while making use of clay vases

Repentance of the Church

Repentance in the Judaism

Laic Repentance

The term of repentance also made its appearance in the laic vocabulary, with sensitive a connotation negative and thus pejorative.

As illustration of this employment, one can propose the point of view of according to European deputy Bernard Poignant appeared in several newspapers (Le Monde 13.12.05, Ouest-France) is entitled: France, I like your history .

It becomes tiring repentance and to excuse itself for each stage of the French history. The repentance is a pontifical, marked method seal of the Pénitence and on standby of Rédemption. The search of historical truth, the tireless research of the facts and their publication concern the principle of recognition, therefore of a laic and democratic method.

Each year will bring its batch of schizophrenia or contradictions. May 8th, 1945 is the end of the Nazism, but the beginning of the war of Algeria with the massacre of several thousands of people still inhabitants of French departments. Yes, Napoleon with Austerlitz and other battles brought the military domination, but also the civil code. Negative or positive, colonization does not have to appear in a legal text to draw a judgment from it having force from right.

Note: France forever made repentance on its Slave past of , nor on tortures in Algeria. Of course much books left in the most complete anonymity but it there forever have official recognition nor public debates on this subject. But during the mandate of Jacques Chirac, certain French understood that France could not advance without recognizing its errors of last in its colonies, from where the law Taubira of May 2001. Certain historians and politicians dispute this law of " repentance". The polemic had started with the recognition of the Armenian genocide in January 2001 and had finished in October 2006 .

The new president of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy often used this term, during the countryside of 2007. On Sunday, May 6, 2007, evening of the 2nd turn of the presidential election, he pronounces this sentence: " I want to finish some with the repentance which is a form of hatred of oneself, and competes with it memories which nourishes the hatred of the autres."

For a more neutral definition, to see Repentance .

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