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PENANCE (Old Fr. penance, fr. Lat. poenitentia, penitence)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 84 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PENANCE (Old Fr. penance, fr. Lat. poenitentia, penitence) , strictly, repentance of sins. Thus in the Douai version of the New "Testament the Greek word erfivota is rendered "
penance
 ," where the Authorized Version has " repentance." The two words, similar in their derivation and
original
  sense, have however come to be symbolical of conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising out of the controversy as to the respective merits of " faith " and " good works." The Reformers, upholding the
doctrine
  of
justification
  by faith, held that repentance consisted in a
change
  of the whole moral attitude of the mind and soul (E7rtarpEaOa1, Matt. xiii. 15; Luke xxii. 32), and that the Divine forgiveness followed true repentance and
confession
  to God without any reparation of " works." This is the view generally held by Protestants. In the Roman Catholic Church the
sacrament
  of
penance
  consists of three parts: contritio, confhssia, salisfactio. Contritio is in fact repentance as
Protestant
  theologians understand it, i.e. sorrow for sin arising from love of God, and long before the Reformation the schoolmen debated the question whether complete "contrition" was or was not in itself sufficient to obtain the Divine pardon. The Council of Trent, however, decided that " reconciliation " could not follow such contrition without the other parts of the
sacrament
 , which form part of it (sine sacramenti voto, quod in ilia includatur). Contrition is also distinguished from " attrition " (atlritio), i.e. repentance due to fear of
punishment
 . It was questioned whether a state of mind thus produced would suffice for obtaining the benefits of the sacrament; this point was also set at rest by the Council of Trent, which decided that attrition, though not in itself capable of obtaining the
justification
  of the sinner, is also inspired by God and thus disposes the soul to benefit by the grace of the sacrament.
The word " penance," applied to the whole sacrament, is also used of the works of
satisfaction
  imposed by the priest on the penitent, i.e. the temporal
punishment
  (poena). This varies with the character and heinousness of the offences committed. In the middle ages " doing penance " was often a process as terrible and humiliating to the penitent as it was possibly edifying to the Church. Public penances have, how-ever, long been abolished in all branches of the Christian Church. (See
CONFESSION
 .)


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