A Fresh Look At Confession

Author : David M. Knight
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781585959013
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fresh Look at Confession written by David M. Knight and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Knight was forty years a priest before he learned that priests don't hear sins in confession. "What you are really revealing is your ideals," he says. "The real you has a different set of ideals, reflecting your heart instead of your lapses. This 'you' abides with God." With these words Father Knight reveals that A Fresh Look at Confession is unlike anything you may have read about the sacrament. He speaks about the heart of confession, its meaning and mystery, and why it is so necessary for authentic followers of Christ. This is deep theology, explained in clear language. But it's also much more: Father Knight's moving, intensely personal account of his own journey as a sinner takes readers beyond theory and into the awe-inspiring reality of our complete redemption in Jesus, who does not just forgive, but who "takes away" the sins of the world. From a varied background as missionary, teacher, pastor, professor, retreat director, and campus minister, Father Knight's ministry has come to focus on making mystical experience commonplace in conscious Christian living. Book jacket.

Author : Paul Wilkes
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761155961
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Confession written by Paul Wilkes and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the practice of confession, both religious and secular, and highlights its importance as a tool for self-examination, forgiveness, and reconnecting with oneself.

Author : Allan Janssen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498286259
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessing the Faith Today written by Allan Janssen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the understanding that confession is a witness to the gospel, Confessing the Faith Today investigates how a sixteenth-century Reformation confession, the Belgic Confession, can assist contemporary Christians testify to the truth of Gods gracious turn toward creation and do so in the context of the twenty-first century's competing claims. A close examination of the internal coherence of the Belgic Confession, along with an exploration of how that confession might engage contemporary life, offers fresh insight into how Christians might articulate what is at stake in the gospel. Janssen encourages the church to enter a conversation with the forebears of the faith, acknowledging the historical nature of not only the confession but of God's involvement in all creation.

Author : John Cornwell
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465039952
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Box written by John Cornwell and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confession is a crucial ritual of the Catholic Church, offering absolution of sin and spiritual guidance to the faithful. Yet this ancient sacrament has also been a source of controversy and oppression, culminating, as prize-winning historian John Cornwell reveals in The Dark Box, with the scandal of clerical child abuse. Drawing on extensive historical sources, contemporary reports, and first-hand accounts, Cornwell takes a hard look at the long evolution of confession. The papacy made annual, one-on-one confession obligatory for the first time in the 13th century. In the era that followed, confession was a source of spiritual consolation as well as sexual and mercenary scandal. During the 16th century, the Church introduced the confession box to prevent sexual solicitation of women, but this private space gave rise to new forms of temptation, both for penitents and confessors. Yet no phase in the story of the sacrament has had such drastic consequences as a historic decree by Pope Pius X in 1910. In reaction to the spiritual perils of the new century, Pius sought to safeguard the Catholic faithful by lowering the age at which children made their first confession from their early teens to seven, while exhorting all Catholics to confess frequently instead of annually. This sweeping, inappropriately early imposition of the sacrament gave priests an unprecedented and privileged role in the lives of young boys and girls—a role that a significant number would exploit in the decades that followed. A much-needed account of confession’s fraught history, The Dark Box explores the sources of the sacrament’s harm and shame, while recognizing its continuing power to offer consolation and reconciliation.

Author : David Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780867160413
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confession Can Change Your Life written by David Knight and published by . This book was released on 1985-02-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knight examines why our practice of the Sacrament of Reconciliation has become stagnant. And, by sketching the evolution of the sacrament, he offers us challenging insights from the past to help revitalize our celebration of the sacrament today.

Author : Paul Farren
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612615953
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Forgiveness written by Paul Farren and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Freedom & Forgiveness: A Fresh Look at the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Father Farren examines the history of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the ways it brings us into a deeper experience of God. This little book is simple, easy to read, and deeply prayerful. Father Paul’s Irish storytelling background comes to the forefront as he articulates simply but effectively the history of confession with a fresh look to the sacraments which profoundly centers a tone of New Evangelization. Confession is somewhat daunting for many of us; yet Father Farren argues, “Our understanding of the sacrament reveals our image of God. If our image of God is one of an uncompromising judge, then the sacrament can fill us with dread.”Instead of coming to confession to avoid judgment and hellfire, Father Farren paints a picture of the Sacrament of Reconciliation which presents a loving God who longs for a restored relationship with His children. It is an inspirational picture and one that is presented compellingly.

Author : Joseph T. Nolan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions written by Joseph T. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph T. Nolan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confession written by Joseph T. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrienne von Speyr
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1621641821
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confession written by Adrienne von Speyr and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of her profound book on confession, which theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar calls "one of her most central works", Adrienne von Speyr discusses the moral and practical aspects of this sacrament in great depth. The most complete spiritual treatise on confession ever written, the book covers conversion, scruples, contrition, spiritual direction, laxity, frequency of confession, confessions of religious and lay people, and even confessions of saints. The most intriguing element in von Speyr's understanding of confession, fully developed in this volume, is its trinitarian and christological basis. The Cross is the archetypal confession, and Christian sacramental confession is thus an imitation of Christ in the strict sense. Confession examines the enormous fruitfulness of this dogmatic basis from many perspectives, giving a wealth of suggestions that both the theological expert and the layman will find very helpful. Its practical applicability to one's own confession emerges from every page.

Author : Otto Betz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Confession written by Otto Betz and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: