Repentance?

Some quotations gathered in an article on the Anglican Futures site.

William Booth:

The chief danger of the twentieth century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, and heaven without hell.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Mike Ovey:

But please understand that this theology has been running round, and indeed running, the Church of England for decades. And it opens the door to cheap grace, because it says yes not just to Jesus but also to the world. It’s not an explicit ‘no’ to Jesus, but it is a Jesus and the world approach. As you look at us in the Church of England, I’m afraid you are looking at a church which has an increasingly worldly view of grace, a cheap grace in which repentance is redundant, and which we can safely bestow on ourselves because we already have divine light within us and we know when God will give grace to us. Frighteningly, on this view God will never disagree with this, because his voice comes from within us.

And this from the Kigali Commitment:

Repentance defines and shapes the Christian life and the life of the church.

The question for the church is this: were Jesus and the Apostles right or wrong to call the proper response to the gospel ‘repentance’?