metanoia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fundamental change of mind.

   “Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.”

2. isim A spiritual or religious conversion.

   “There is therefore enthusiasm no less than resignation in an enlightened metanoia. You give up everything in the form of claims; you receive everything back in the form of a divine presence.”

3. isim A fundamental change in the human personality.
4. isim A device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.