Making confession, hearing confession
Subtitle: a history of the cure of souls
By: Annemarie S. Kidder.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814654972
Subjects: Confession
Notes: "A Michael Glazier Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage: the need for confession and its biblical beginnings; title: The early church and the rise of public confession; title: The rise of private confession and spiritual direction; title: The practice of private confession; title: Private confession in the monastery and in the church; title: Doing penance: its use and abuse; title: The rise of spiritual direction among the laity; title: Martin Luther and confession; title: The priesthood of all believers and mutual confession: pietism and methodism; title: Discipline and corporate confession in the Reformed tradition: Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin; title: The Church of England; title: Confession and spiritual direction in the Roman Catholic Church after Trent; title: Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits; title: Biblical antecedents, historical trajectories, and contemporary expressions; title: The decline of confession in the church; title: Constructing a contemporary theology of confession; title: The choice of a confessor; title: Serving as (a good) confessor to others; title: What to confess; title: The nature of penance; title: A litany of private confession; title: Catechetical considerations.