The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration (A Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments)

by James B. Prothro

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2023

Overview

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 distanceeducation programs. Gray is also president of the Augustine Institute.

Key Features

• Offers a biblical theology of the sacrament of reconciliation
• Provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God’s gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God’s Word

Product Details

• Title: The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration
• Author: James B. Prothro
• Series: A Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Reconciliation › Biblical teaching; Confession › Catholic Church; Bible. O.T. › Theology
• ISBNs: 9781493444601, 9781493444588, 1493444581, 1493444603
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLRCNCLSCRMNTS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-16T18:05:03Z

About James B. Prothro

Dr. James Prothro is an associate professor of Theology and Sacred Scripture and the director of the MA Biblical Studies program. He has taught a wide range of topics, especially in the New Testament, and holds degrees in biblical languages, in classical Greek and Latin, and in theology. He began teaching at the Augustine Institute in 2020. Most of his academic writing focuses on the letters and thought of the Apostle Paul and on the ancient Greek language, in which Paul wrote. Dr. Prothro is also engaged in thinking and writing about the doctrine of biblical inspiration and how it helps us understand what the Bible is and how to read it for all its worth.

His recent publications include The Apostle Paul and His Letters: An Introduction (Catholic University of America Press, 2021), A Pauline Theology of Justification: Forgiveness Friendship, and Life in Christ, Lectio Sacra Series (Cascade Books, 2023), and The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration, A Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments Series (Baker Academic, 2023).