Contents |
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Introduction |
x |
Part One: Shaping the Tradition |
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CHAPTER ONE |
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Origins of Ancient Penance |
5 |
Responsibility for Sinners |
7 |
Repentance and Reconciliation |
9 |
Authority in and of the Church |
12 |
Controversy over Reconciliation |
15 |
CHAPTER TWO |
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Controversy and Institution |
29 |
Rigorism and Reconciliation |
30 |
Third-Century Eastern Practice |
44 |
Controversy and Policy |
49 |
CHAPTER THREE |
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Canonical Penance and Its Liturgy |
56 |
The Canonical Discipline |
57 |
The Liturgy of Canonical Penance |
65 |
The Practice of Penance |
73 |
Other Forms of Ecclésial Penance |
77 |
CHAPTER FOUR |
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Pastoral Adaptation in the Middle Ages |
100 |
Origin and Development of Tariff Penance |
102 |
The Operation of Private Penance |
113 |
Communal Forms of Penance |
118 |
CHAPTER FIVE |
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The Origins of Modem Confession |
139 |
Medieval Confession and Absolution |
140 |
Tariff Penance and Popular Piety |
150 |
Penance on the Eve of the Reformation |
156 |
CHAPTER SIX |
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Modem Penance and the Counter-Reformation |
168 |
The Tridentine Response 168 Immobility and Individualization |
171 |
Rediscovery and Reform |
184 |
Part Two: The Revised Rites |
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CHAPTER SEVEN The Reform of Penance |
205 |
Vatican Council II |
205 |
Preparing the New Ritual |
209 |
Initial Reforms |
215 |
The Rite of Penance |
221 |
CHAPTER EIGHT |
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Theological Foundations |
250 |
Reconciliation and Salvation |
250 |
Reconciliation and the Church |
258 |
Sacramental Conversion and Reconciliation |
269 |
The Value of Penance |
290 |
CHAPTER NINE |
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Liturgies of Conversion and Reconciliation |
298 |
Ministries of Penance and Reconciliation |
300 |
Celebrating Penance and Reconciliation |
311 |
The Liturgical Rites |
328 |
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CHAPTER TEN |
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Shaping the Future |
349 |
A Contemporary Crisis |
349 |
Tradition and Celebration |
355 |
Continuing Reform and Renewal |
367 |
The Need for Reconciliation |
395 |
Bibliography |
408 |
Index |
434 |