Editing Contrition (section)

== In other Christian theology ==
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[[File:Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 135.png|thumb|right|David is depicted giving a [[Penitential Psalms|penitential psalm]] in this 1860 woodcut by [[Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld]], a Lutheran]]
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 [[Law and Gospel#The Book of Concord|knowledge of sin]]; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of [[Absolution#Lutheran Churches|absolution]], and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it from terrors."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookofconcord.org/augsburgconfession.php#article12|title=Augsburg Confession - Book of Concord|website=www.bookofconcord.org|access-date=2019-06-04|archive-date=2021-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311215248/https://bookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/#article12|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QQDAAAAQAAJ&q=contrition|title=The soules preparation for Christ: a treatise of contrition [by T. Hooker].|last=Hooker|first=Thomas|date=1638|publisher=Nickoles|language=en}}</ref>

Anglo-Catholic rector of [[St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Philadelphia)|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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-orAAAAYAAJ&q=Contrition%2C+conditions&pg=PA187|title=Catholic Faith and Practice: A manual of theological instruction for confirmation and first communion|last=Mortimer|first=Alfred Garnett|date=1897|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|language=en}}</ref>