Repentance and conversion

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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · scriptural interpretation · mercy and righteousness · forgiveness as proof not cause · equity, mercy, and pardon

Usually: argument (1) · skepticism (1)

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) primary

Jean Calvin · 1541 (initial publication of the Institutes; this record is for a later 1559/French-collated edition, but the work’s composition spans Calvin’s revisions after earlier versions)
Book I. On The Knowledge Of God The Creator. > Chapter IV. The Sophistry And Jargon Of The Schools Concerning Repentance, (37/37)

Calvin argues that biblical language about repentance, mercy, and purging sins describes conversion and human response, not payments to satisfy God, and uses Scripture and examples (Daniel, Solomon, Peter, Hebrews) to rebut school “satisfaction” schemes.

in the Scripture, are described as gratuitous. A general rule ought rather to be deduced from these numerous examples, than from that single case which is attended with peculiar circumstances. XXXVI. When Daniel exhorted Nebuchadnezzar to “break off his sins by righteousness, and his iniquities by showing mercy to the poor,”(1786) he meant not to intimate that righteousness and mercy propitiate God and atone for sin…