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Confession : Catholics, repentance, and forgiveness in America
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- Creator
- Patrick W. Carey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 375 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190889135, 0190889136, 9780190889159, 0190889152, 9780190889166, 0190889160
- OCLC
- on1028165109
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Part I. Colonial Era: 1. Trent and penance in the colonial period -- Part II. Nineteenth Century: 2. The confessional seal: legal and apologetic dimensions of the sacrament of penance ; 3. Sin, repentance, and confession in nineteenth-century American Protestant polemics ; 4. American Catholic theology of penance in nineteenth-century America ; 5. American Catholic practice of confession in nineteenth-century America -- Part III. Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: 6. History, Pius X, and the practice of confession, 1900-20 ; 7. Confession, continuity, and reforms, 1920-60 ; 8. Confession, the new psychology, and birth control, 1920-60 ; 9. From confession to reconciliation, Vatican II to 2015 -- Conclusion