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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780415997461 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 26, 2009), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Rediscovering Confession is about recovering the experience of confession, in danger now of becoming a lost art.

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9781138881761 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 23, 2015), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Rediscovering Confession is about recovering the experience of confession, in danger now of becoming a lost art.

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Product Description: This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication...read more

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9781849666596 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 2012, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture.

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9781472557452 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 16, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture.

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Book Description: The sacrament of Confession is probably the most talked about sacraments in the Catholic Church, as well as a spiritual practice being revived in many Protestant churches. This book explores the sacrament focusing on the two people who confess – God and the penitent...read more
By Jean Vanier (foreword by)

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9781612615226 | Paraclete Pr, March 1, 2014, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: The sacrament of Confession is probably the most talked about sacraments in the Catholic Church, as well as a spiritual practice being revived in many Protestant churches.

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Product Description: Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject...read more

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9780415963718 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 14, 2008), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject.

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9780203890561 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 1, 2008), cover price $111.00

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Product Description: Christian confessions are usually seen as statements of faith which has no relationship with politics. The result is a tendency to view these documents as theological but not political. This study discusses this misconception but adds that although these documents are not to be perceived as political per se, that they can nonetheless not ignore the political contexts from which they emerge...read more

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9781443821650 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, July 1, 2010, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Christian confessions are usually seen as statements of faith which has no relationship with politics.

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Product Description: It was once said that most of the beds in mental hospitals could be emptied if people could find forgiveness. Thankfully, Psalm 130:4 tells us, "There is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." There is a pardon for the penitent, and therein is the good news of the gospel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781573581257 | Soli Deo Gloria Pubns, September 1, 2002, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: It was once said that most of the beds in mental hospitals could be emptied if people could find forgiveness.

Offers a moving reappraisal of this neglected sacrament, drawing on scripture, the lives of the saints, and a wealth of personal stories, showing how the practice of confession draws us deeper into a loving relationship with God, the body of Christ, and our fellow sinners. Original. (view table of contents)

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9781570753862 | Orbis Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Offers a moving reappraisal of this neglected sacrament, drawing on scripture, the lives of the saints, and a wealth of personal stories, showing how the practice of confession draws us deeper into a loving relationship with God, the body of Christ, and our fellow sinners.

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Product Description: The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows, and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the psychoanalyst's office...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780226075853 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 22, 2000, cover price $32.00

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9780226075860, titled "Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature" | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today.

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Product Description: Has sacramental reconciliation disappeared from the horizon of Catholic practice? Has "confession" been extinguished from your practice of the faith? Have you noticed a marked change in the way in which you have become reconciled to God and the Church community over the course of time? These questions and others are addressed in Julia Upton's study of sacramental reconciliation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780814623732 | Liturgical Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Has sacramental reconciliation disappeared from the horizon of Catholic practice?

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Product Description: Exploring our fascination with confession, this work examines the human need to be heard, understood and known. Sharon Hymer looks at the act of self disclosure as a means of freedom from self-deception, to greater intimacy with others, and to ultimate redemption through connecting with the deepest recesses of our souls...read more

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9781568381183 | Hazelden, October 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: From disclosure made to an audience of strangers on a television talk show to confessions made to friends, lovers, and therapists, sharing secrets is a universal human need.

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9781568382029, titled "Consuming Confessions: The Quest for Self-Discovery, Intimacy, and Redemption" | Reprint edition (Hazelden, May 1, 1998), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Exploring our fascination with confession, this work examines the human need to be heard, understood and known.

Product Description: Book by David Myers

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9780801430817 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Book by David Myers

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Product Description: Fr. John Arnold takes a fresh look at this important rite, and explains how many Catholics experience a fuller sense of God's mercy and grace in their lives through it.

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9780892839056 | Servant Pubns, April 1, 1995, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Fr.

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Product Description: Book by Barbaric, Slavko

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9781557250230 | Paraclete Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Book by Barbaric, Slavko

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9780898761344 | Gardner Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $24.95

Product Description: Sin / Gail Ramshaw Schmidt -- The 1983 Synod of Bishops and the ""crisis of confession"" / Catherine Dooley -- The Tridentine model of confession in its historical context / Dionisio Borobio -- The process of conversion and its ministries / Konrad Baumgartner -- ""Social sin"" and its acknowledgement / Michael Sievernich -- Children's confession / Norbette Mette -- Sin, confession, and reconciliation in Africa / Kabasele-Lumbala -- Confession of sins in the Old Testament / Cesare Giraudo -- Testimonies from the Christian east to the possibility of self- reconciliation / Frans van de Paverd -- The confession of sins in the Reformation churches / Frank Senn -- Confession of fault and reconciliation between the churches / Geoffrey Wainwright...read more
By Mary Collins and David Power (editor)

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9780567300706 | Scm Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sin / Gail Ramshaw Schmidt -- The 1983 Synod of Bishops and the ""crisis of confession"" / Catherine Dooley -- The Tridentine model of confession in its historical context / Dionisio Borobio -- The process of conversion and its ministries / Konrad Baumgartner -- ""Social sin"" and its acknowledgement / Michael Sievernich -- Children's confession / Norbette Mette -- Sin, confession, and reconciliation in Africa / Kabasele-Lumbala -- Confession of sins in the Old Testament / Cesare Giraudo -- Testimonies from the Christian east to the possibility of self- reconciliation / Frans van de Paverd -- The confession of sins in the Reformation churches / Frank Senn -- Confession of fault and reconciliation between the churches / Geoffrey Wainwright.

Examines the experience of the sacrament of Confession from the points of view of priests and lay people and provides a comprehensive history of the sacrament

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9780917657443 | Reprint edition (Donald I Fine, November 1, 1985), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Examines the experience of the sacrament of Confession from the points of view of priests and lay people and provides a comprehensive history of the sacrament

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