AW: OST and metanoia

[Harrison Owen]

At 08:51 AM 12/5/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>artur wrote:
>
>Metanoia has a Greek origin and means "profound shift of mind" or
>paradigm shift. It was repeatedly used by Paul to refer to his own
>conversion. The word is used in English but is not included in
>Dictionaries ...
>
>         in my little duden - German dicitionary for words from foreign
> languages -
>it says (in my translation):
>
>         metanoia:   inner turning back, penance
>
>so I was wondering a bit about the connection with OS

The problem, I think, lies not with "metanoia" -- which in Koine Greek (New
Testament Greek) literally means " a turning around" -- a very major turn
around -- as in transformation. When the New Testament was translated into
English (and I am sure German) it came out "repentance." Which is probably
correct, but limited. Anyhow the association works for me. And who knows --
Open Space may be good for Sin too.

ho

>Harrison Owen

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