Rediscovering confession : the practice of forgiveness and where it leads / David A. Steere.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415997461
- 9780415997461
- 616.8914 22
- RC489.F67 S74 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 616.8914 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A468412B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Honest Confession -- The Full Confessional Experience -- Some Classical Confessions: Augustine and Patrick -- More Confessions: Tolstoy and Vonnegut -- The Trouble with Adam -- The Confessional Relationship -- Women in Confession: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp -- Contemporary Women Confessors: Karen Armstrong and Elaine Pagels -- The Enneagram -- The Truth of the Matter -- More Confessors: Bill Wilson and Recovery -- Predicament and Presence in Practice -- Forgiveness and Confessional Relationships -- Changing Our Mind -- The Compassionate Community.
"Rediscovering Confession is about recovering the experience of confession, in danger now of becoming a lost art. It identifies four elements present in psychotherapy and confession: a state of heightened self-awareness, a growing realization that our predicament points in some meaningful direction beyond itself, the necessity to make a relevant response to our situation, and a potential for spiritual encounter that accompanies the process. Each chapter contains a section devoted to practice, with exercises for individual contemplation and experimentation, guidelines for forming a confessional partnership, directions for conducting discussions in a study goup, and ways to organize a small confessional group."--Publisher's website.
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