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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Myers, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 FearfulBibliography; Index