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How can we talk about repentance in the 21st century? Disasters, resignations of politicians or the collapse of public systems appear as matters of public repentance. Following M. Foucault repentance is the manifestation of truth about the self. Public is not the opposite of private, but of concealed. Public Repentance is the publication of the concealed, which enables the reversion of injustice.
This contribution discovers a new semantic on repentance and puts an end to the silence, which German Ethics has laid over this topic throughout the last decades. It reflects, how repentance was ethically veiled after World War II. It rediscovers the basis of repentance in the contrition and mercy of God, and unfolds four historic patterns of repentance in an ecclesial, a therapeutic, a juridical and a liberating paradigm.
Repentance is developed as a phenomenon for overcoming a crisis. The focus is not put on the question of guilt, but on a hope founded in the Christian hope for resurrection as a driving power to enable the overcoming of fractures and fails in life stories. It opens up new ways out of hopelessness and despair, and leads to good works of a clear judgement, of regret and atonement.
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