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Confession - Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America (Hardcover)
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Confession - Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America (Hardcover)
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Confession is a history of penance as a virtue and a sacrament in
the United States from about 1634, when Catholicism arrived in
Maryland, to 2015, fifty years after the major theological and
disciplinary changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council.
Patrick W. Carey argues that the Catholic theology and practice of
penance, so much opposed by the inheritors of the Protestant
Reformation, kept alive the biblical penitential language in the
United States at least until the mid-1960s when Catholic
penitential discipline changed. During the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, American Catholics created institutions that
emphasized, in opposition to Protestant culture, confession to a
priest as the normal and almost exclusive means of obtaining
forgiveness. Preaching, teaching, catechesis, and parish
revival-type missions stressed sacramental confession and the
practice became a widespread routine in American Catholic life.
After the Second Vatican Council, the practice of sacramental
confession declined suddenly. The post-Vatican II history of
penance, influenced by the Council's reforms and by changing
American moral and cultural values, reveals a major shift in
penitential theology; moving from an emphasis on confession to
emphasis on reconciliation. Catholics make up about a quarter of
the American population, and thus changes in the practice of
penance had an impact on the wider society. In the fifty years
since the Council, penitential language has been overshadowed
increasingly by the language of conflict and controversy. In
today's social and political climate, Confession may help Americans
understand how far their society has departed from the penitential
language of the earlier American tradition, and consider the
advantages and disadvantages of such a departure.
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