Confession is a history of penance as a virtue and a sacrament in the United States from about 1634, when Catholicism arrived in Maryland, to 2015, fifty years after the major theological and disciplinary changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965.) In the years since the Council, penitential language has been overshadowed increasingly by the language of conflict and controversy. In today's social and political climate, Confessionmay help Americans understand how much their society has departed from the penitential language of the earlier American tradition, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of such a departure.…mehr
Confession is a history of penance as a virtue and a sacrament in the United States from about 1634, when Catholicism arrived in Maryland, to 2015, fifty years after the major theological and disciplinary changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965.) In the years since the Council, penitential language has been overshadowed increasingly by the language of conflict and controversy. In today's social and political climate, Confessionmay help Americans understand how much their society has departed from the penitential language of the earlier American tradition, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of such a departure.
Patrick Carey is Emeritus Professor of Theology at Marquette University. He was the William J. Kelly Chair in Catholic Theology, the former Chair of Marquette's Department of Theology, a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, author of over thirty articles on American Catholic life and thought, and the author or editor of twenty books, including his 2010 intellectual biography, Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ: A Model Theologian.
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* Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * PART I: Colonial Era * Chapter One: Trent and Penance in the Colonial Period * PART II: Nineteenth Century * Chapter Two: The Confessional Seal: Legal and Apologetic Dimensions of the Sacrament of Penance * Chapter Three: Sin, Repentance, and Confession in Nineteenth-Century American Protestant Polemics * Chapter Four: American Catholic Theology of Penance in Nineteenth-Century America * Chapter Five: American Catholic Practice of Confession in Nineteenth-Century America * PART III: Twentieth Century * Chapter Six: History, Pius X, and the Practice of Confession, 1900-1920 * Chapter Seven: Confession, Continuity, and Reforms, 1920-1960 * Chapter Eight: Confession, The New Psychology, and Birth Control, 1920-1960 * Chapter Nine: From Confession to Reconciliation, Vatican II to 2015 * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * PART I: Colonial Era * Chapter One: Trent and Penance in the Colonial Period * PART II: Nineteenth Century * Chapter Two: The Confessional Seal: Legal and Apologetic Dimensions of the Sacrament of Penance * Chapter Three: Sin, Repentance, and Confession in Nineteenth-Century American Protestant Polemics * Chapter Four: American Catholic Theology of Penance in Nineteenth-Century America * Chapter Five: American Catholic Practice of Confession in Nineteenth-Century America * PART III: Twentieth Century * Chapter Six: History, Pius X, and the Practice of Confession, 1900-1920 * Chapter Seven: Confession, Continuity, and Reforms, 1920-1960 * Chapter Eight: Confession, The New Psychology, and Birth Control, 1920-1960 * Chapter Nine: From Confession to Reconciliation, Vatican II to 2015 * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
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