Opher Kutner writes:
> There is no room in his (Jonah's) world for repentance.
> Repentance defies truth. That is what Moses said:
> God is first merciful and gracious - only then truthful.
> And we are to follow God's ways only as far as being
> merciful and gracious. What can we know of truth.

It seems to me that we cannot speak meaningfully about
repentance until we are able to agree among ourselves
what it is that we are to repent of, and offer at least
a tentative answer to the question, "What is sin?"
Kierkegaard's "Concept of Dread" (Begrebet Angest) might
be a good place to start.