make an act of love" (Sabetti, Theologia Moralis: de necess. contritionis, no. 731; Ballerine, Opus Morale: de contritione). In other Christian theology The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, divides repentance into two parts: "One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it from terrors." Puritan preacher Thomas Hooker defined contrition as "nothing else, namely, when a sinner by the sight of sin and vileness of it, and the punishment due to the same, is made sensible of sin, and is made to hate it, and hath his heart separated from the same." Anglo-Catholic rector of St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia, Alfred Garnett Mortimer, pointed out that "feelings" are not an adequate gauge of contrition. The signs of true contrition are a readiness to confess, a readiness to amend one's life and avoid temptation, and a readiness to forgive others. See also Act of Contrition Atonement (governmental view) Forgiveness Mercy Pardon Ordo salutis Regeneration (theology) Sacrament of Penance Footnotes References Sylvester Joseph Hunter, Outlines of Dogmatic Theology (New York, 1896) Suarez, De Pænitentia, disp. iv, sect. iii, a,2 Bellarmine, De Controversiis, Book II, De sacramento pænitentiæ Denifle, Luther und Luthertum in der ersten Entwicklung (Mainz, 1906), I, 229 sqq., II, 454, 517, 618 sq. Collet in Migne, Theologiæ Cursus Completus (Paris, 1840), XXII Palmieri, De Pænitentia (Rome, 1879; Prato, 1896) Petavius, Dogmata Theologica: de pænitentia (Paris, 1867). External links Etymology online Atonement in Christianity Emotions Catholic penitential practices Christian hamartiology Christian terminology Catholic theology and doctrine fr:Repentir (christianisme)