Rediscovering confession : the practice of forgiveness and where it leads / David A. Steere.

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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