What if repentance is not about feeling bad - but about turning?

Modern Christianity often treats repentance as a brief emotional moment or a one-time decision. Yet Scripture presents repentance as something far more structural and far more serious. It is not merely sorrow. It is not simply regret. It is not religious ritual.

It is a decisive, covenantal turning of the entire person toward God.

In The Anatomy of Repentance, Michael Taylor carefully examines repentance through the lens of Scripture alone, using the King James Version and in-depth Hebrew and Greek word studies (with transliteration, pronunciation, and definitions). This book moves step by step through the biblical anatomy of repentance: