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Poor Sinning Folk : Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501744709
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poor Sinning FolkDDC classification:
  • 264.02086
LOC classification:
  • BV845 .M947 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Poor, Sinning Folk -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Late-Medieval and Reformation Confession -- Prologue: Theology of Confession before the Reformation -- 1 "Poor, Sinning Folk": Practicing Confession in Late-Medieval Germany -- 2 "The Shorter, the Better": Confession after the Reformation -- II The Catholic Reformation and Sacramental Confession -- Prologue: The Council of Trent -- 3 "Festivals of Souls": Reforming the Rite and Structure of Confession -- 4 "The Precious Jewel": Confession in the Everyday World -- Conclusion: "Careful, Not Fearful -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In "Poor, Sinning Folk," W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a priest in secret one's sins against God and other humans.
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Cover -- Poor, Sinning Folk -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Late-Medieval and Reformation Confession -- Prologue: Theology of Confession before the Reformation -- 1 "Poor, Sinning Folk": Practicing Confession in Late-Medieval Germany -- 2 "The Shorter, the Better": Confession after the Reformation -- II The Catholic Reformation and Sacramental Confession -- Prologue: The Council of Trent -- 3 "Festivals of Souls": Reforming the Rite and Structure of Confession -- 4 "The Precious Jewel": Confession in the Everyday World -- Conclusion: "Careful, Not Fearful -- Bibliography -- Index.

In "Poor, Sinning Folk," W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a priest in secret one's sins against God and other humans.

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