Category Penance

The Forgotten Discipline

A 17th-century depiction of one of the 28 articles of the Augsburg Confession by Wenceslas Hollar, which divides repentance into two parts: "One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it from terrors." Augsburg Confession, Article XII: Of Repentance

Why Protestants Would Benefit from Penance and Mortification of the Flesh Recovering the Christian art of self-denial, repentance, and mastery over the appetites There is a curious irony in the history of Protestant Christianity. In seeking to protect the primacy…