The Bible and Reconciliation

This addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.

James Prothro offers a biblical theology of the sacrament of reconciliation--the restoration of the sinner through forgiveness and repentance. Prothro fleshes out the patterns in which God's people in the Old and New Testaments approach the merciful God, confess, and are forgiven and called to reengage their relationship with God by growing in faith and love through God's ministry of grace.

Series editors are Timothy C. Gray and John Sehorn. Gray and Sehorn teach at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology, which prepares students for Christian mission through on-campus and distance-education programs. Gray is also president of the Augustine Institute.

Series Preface
1. Confession and Reconciliation: An Encounter with Divine Mercy
2. Sin, Mercy, and Promise: Foundations in Genesis 1-11
3. Mercy, Penalty, and Mediation: The Patriarchs and the Exodus
4. Rebuke and Promise for Israel: Kings and Prophets
5. Confession, Restoration, and Penance: Psalms and Sages
6. Confessing in Hope, Awaiting the Messiah
7. Jesus and the Mission of Restoration
8. Christ, the Spirit, and the Ministry of Forgiveness
9. Be Reconciled to God! Sin and Restoration in the Pauline Letters
10. Growing in Christ, Confessing in Hope: The Catholic Epistles and Revelation
11. The Manifold Mercy of God
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