Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America

by Patrick W Carey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190889136
• ISBN13: 9780190889135
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"