This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the individual and society. Consequently, the authors argue, penitence is central to our understanding of early modern Christianity as it was taught and experienced in everyday life. From Germany to France and to the Americas, Catholics turned to traditional forms of penitence not only to save individual…mehr
This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the individual and society. Consequently, the authors argue, penitence is central to our understanding of early modern Christianity as it was taught and experienced in everyday life. From Germany to France and to the Americas, Catholics turned to traditional forms of penitence not only to save individual souls, but also to assert their confessional identity. For their part, Protestants established distinctive penitential approaches and institutions in accordance with their own understandings of sin and salvation.
Contents: Introduction; Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer; Judge and doctor: images of the confessor in printed model sermon collections 1450-1520 Anne T. Thayer; Communication consolation and discipline: two early Lutheran preachers on confession Mary Jane Haemig; Private confession and religious authority in Reformation Nÿrnberg Ronald K. Rittgers; Richard Greenham's 'spiritual physicke': the comfort of afflicted consciences in Elizabethan pastoral care Kenneth L. Parker; Notions of sin and penitence within the French reformed community Raymond A. Mentzer; The rituals of reconciliation: admonition confession and community in the Dutch reformed church Charles H. Parker; The politics of the soul: confession in counter-reformation Milan Wietse de Boer; A body of beliefs and believers: sacramental confession and parish worship in Reformation France Katharine Jackson Lualdi; Johannes Uhl on penitence: sermons and prayers of the dean of Rottweil 1579-1602 Jason K. Nye; Confession gender life-writing: some cases (mainly) from Spain Jodi Bilinkoff; Confession and consolation: the Society of Jesus and its promotion of the general confession Michael Maher SJ; 'Schools of Mortification': theatricality and the role of penitential practice in the Jesuits' popular missions Jennifer D. Selwyn; Jesuit confessors African slaves and the practice of confession in seventeenth-century Cartagena Ronald J. Morgan; Postscript Thomas N. Tentler; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction; Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer; Judge and doctor: images of the confessor in printed model sermon collections 1450-1520 Anne T. Thayer; Communication consolation and discipline: two early Lutheran preachers on confession Mary Jane Haemig; Private confession and religious authority in Reformation Nÿrnberg Ronald K. Rittgers; Richard Greenham's 'spiritual physicke': the comfort of afflicted consciences in Elizabethan pastoral care Kenneth L. Parker; Notions of sin and penitence within the French reformed community Raymond A. Mentzer; The rituals of reconciliation: admonition confession and community in the Dutch reformed church Charles H. Parker; The politics of the soul: confession in counter-reformation Milan Wietse de Boer; A body of beliefs and believers: sacramental confession and parish worship in Reformation France Katharine Jackson Lualdi; Johannes Uhl on penitence: sermons and prayers of the dean of Rottweil 1579-1602 Jason K. Nye; Confession gender life-writing: some cases (mainly) from Spain Jodi Bilinkoff; Confession and consolation: the Society of Jesus and its promotion of the general confession Michael Maher SJ; 'Schools of Mortification': theatricality and the role of penitential practice in the Jesuits' popular missions Jennifer D. Selwyn; Jesuit confessors African slaves and the practice of confession in seventeenth-century Cartagena Ronald J. Morgan; Postscript Thomas N. Tentler; Bibliography; Index.
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