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'''Metanoia''' is a [[Greek]] term used repeatedly in the [[New Testament]] to mean [[repentance]] or penance. It comes from the Greek words "''Meta''", meaning after, beyond, or with, and "''Noia''", meaning thought.

'''Metanoia''' is a [[Greek]] term used repeatedly in the [[New Testament]] to mean [[repentance]] or penance. It comes from the Greek words "''Meta''", meaning after, beyond, or with, and "''Noia''", meaning thought.

''Metanoia'' as a change of heart and mind is, together with turning away (''epistrephein'') from the dominion of [[heathen]] [[idolatry]] or [[Jewish]] [[pharisee]]ism, the part of [[conversion]], a hoped-for response to preaching [[Gospel]].<ref name="Christopaganism">{{cite book

''Metanoia'' as a change of heart<ref>{{cite book |title=Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies |author=David Bentley Hart |publsiher=Yale University Press |place=New Haven and London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-300-16429-9 |pages=188 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UK5PsFYBXFUC |quote=At the center of his spiritual vision was an experience of ''metanoia'', repentance, a humble return of the prodigal heart to the High God who calls his errant children home;}}</ref> and mind is, together with turning away (''epistrephein'') from the dominion of [[heathen]] [[idolatry]] or [[Jewish]] [[pharisee]]ism, the part of [[conversion]], a hoped-for response to preaching [[Gospel]].<ref name="Christopaganism">{{cite book

|title=Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity?

|title=Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity?

|author=J.C.Hoekendijk

|author=J.C.Hoekendijk