| 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 |
| vm |
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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 |