Word: metanoia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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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