Word: metanoia
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Consider ultimate my personal metanoia. The chance to have national champions here on campus, despite the sport and its fan following, is something that inherently spices up the world of Harvard athletics...
...feed people, to bring forth justice to the nations, to raise the oppressed, requires political change above all. This is the metanoia that must be undergone. The social and political structures that enslave and starve people must be repudiated. I believe this repudiation must be non-violent; but America's inaction, her greed and unwillingness to do justice to the starving will, I fear, made violent and world-wide revolution inevitable. Whether the world that results will be inhabitable, or whether the systems that will be created will be just and free ones, I do not know...
This means, according to Dopfner, that any reform can only be carried out by the church at the council in a spirit of penitence, or metanoia, in the knowledge that it is "a community of sinners." Reform also must be based on the teachings of Christ and Holy Scripture. It also must be in the nature of renovation rather than revolution, preserving what is good from the past tradition while remaining open to future possibilities of development. "We are in danger of resisting ideas, forms and possibilities to which perhaps the future belongs, and we often consider as impossible that...
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