Making confession, hearing confession : a history of the cure of souls /
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Collegeville, Minn. :
Liturgical Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the stage: the need for confession and its biblical beginnings
- The early church and the rise of public confession
- The rise of private confession and spiritual direction
- The practice of private confession
- Private confession in the monastery and in the church
- Doing penance: its use and abuse
- The rise of spiritual direction among the laity and the role of women in confession
- Martin Luther and confession
- The priesthood of all believers and mutual confession: pietism and methodism
- Discipline and corporate confession in the Reformed tradition: Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin
- The Church of England
- Confession and spiritual direction in the Roman Catholic Church after Trent
- Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
- Biblical antecedents, historical trajectories, and contemporary expressions
- The decline of confession in the church
- A contemporary theology of confession : Rahner, Bonhoeffer, Peterson, von Speyr
- The choice of a confessor
- Serving as (a good) confessor to others
- What to confess
- The nature of penance
- A litany of private confession
- Catechetical considerations.