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Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation / Thomas N. Tentler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1568Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691616568
  • 9781400871407
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 234.166
LOC classification:
  • BV840 -- T43 1977eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Introduction -- CHAPTER I. The Historical Background -- CHAPTER II. The Literature of the Forgiveness of Sins -- Part Two. The Teaching on Sacramental Confession at the End of the Middle Ages -- CHAPTER III. The Practice of Auricular Confession -- CHAPTER IV. Sin: The Subject of Confession -- CHAPTER V. The Working of the Sacrament of Penance -- CHAPTER VI. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "great benefits and consolations." Thomas Tentler describes and evaluates the effectiveness of sacramental confession as a functioning institution designed "to cause guilt as well as cure guilt," seeing it in its proper place as a part of the social fabric of the Middle Ages. The author examines the institution of confession in practice as well as in theory, providing an analysis of a practical literature whose authors wanted to explain as clearly as they safely could what confessors and penitents had to believe, do, feel, say, and intend, if sacramental confession were to forgive sins. In so doing he recreates the mentality and experience that the Reformers attacked and the Counter-Reformers defended. Central to his thesis is the contention that Luther, Calvin, and the Fathers of Trent regarded religious institutions as the solution to certain social and psychological problems, and that an awareness of this attitude is important for an assessment of the significance of confession in late medieval and Reformation Europe.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Introduction -- CHAPTER I. The Historical Background -- CHAPTER II. The Literature of the Forgiveness of Sins -- Part Two. The Teaching on Sacramental Confession at the End of the Middle Ages -- CHAPTER III. The Practice of Auricular Confession -- CHAPTER IV. Sin: The Subject of Confession -- CHAPTER V. The Working of the Sacrament of Penance -- CHAPTER VI. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "great benefits and consolations." Thomas Tentler describes and evaluates the effectiveness of sacramental confession as a functioning institution designed "to cause guilt as well as cure guilt," seeing it in its proper place as a part of the social fabric of the Middle Ages. The author examines the institution of confession in practice as well as in theory, providing an analysis of a practical literature whose authors wanted to explain as clearly as they safely could what confessors and penitents had to believe, do, feel, say, and intend, if sacramental confession were to forgive sins. In so doing he recreates the mentality and experience that the Reformers attacked and the Counter-Reformers defended. Central to his thesis is the contention that Luther, Calvin, and the Fathers of Trent regarded religious institutions as the solution to certain social and psychological problems, and that an awareness of this attitude is important for an assessment of the significance of confession in late medieval and Reformation Europe.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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