Making confession, hearing confession : a history of the cure of souls /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kidder, Annemarie S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, [2010]
Subjects:
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.