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Angelica, Suor is forgiven by the Virgin Mary for ill-considered suicide. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Suor Angelica, Westerman, 364] character who forgives Jean Valjean when latter steals the bishop’s valuables. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] forgives man for his sins. [Christianity: Misc.] calf killed to celebrate return of prodigal son. [N.T.: Luke 15:23] of his brother, for twenty years’ false imprisonment. [Ger. Opera: Kienzl, The Evangelist, Westerman, 264] shepherd who pardons his enemies. [Br. Lit.: Canter-bury Tales, “Tale of Melibee”] saintly cleric befriends Jean Valjean after the latter steals his candlesticks. [Fr. Lit.: Victor Hugo Les Misérables] of Bess’s promiscuity with Crown. [Am. Opera: Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, Westerman, 555] received with open arms by loving father. [N.T.: Luke 15:20–21] unexpectedly absolved by the Pope for sinning in the Venusberg. [Ger. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 932] receives Jinny after her extramarital venture. [Am. Lit.: Cass Timberlane] emperor pardons those attempting his destruction. [Ger. Opera: Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito, Westerman, 100–101] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | However, it is, I suggest, in 1849's The Sickness unto Death that Kierkegaard articulates his most theologically consummate and psychologically fertile moment of self-recognition and healing--a vision of the self which relates identity and self-acceptance to faith in a forgiveness of sins which is the gracious gift from the divine Other: "Faith is: that the self in being itself and in willing to be itself rests transparently in God" (p. Here are the opening paragraphs of Apology IV on justification: In the fourth, fifth, and sixth articles, as well as later in the twentieth, they [our critics] condemn us for teaching that people receive the forgiveness of sins not on account of their own merits but freely on account of Christ, by faith in Him. Then he explores other topics, among them whether early Christians in Egypt and Syria denied the crucifixion of Jesus; Jesus' own predictions of the end of his mission; the transfiguration, last supper, and garden of Gethsemane; the resurrection; and the forgiveness of sins. |
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