The Priest in Absolution - A Manual for Hearing Confession

by Anonymous, Scott DeHart (Editor)

This is a reprint of one of the most controversial books published in England in the nineteenth century. It was privately published by the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) as a manual for hearing confession and quickly condemned as "obscene and disgusting." Few original copies of this revered and condemned book remain. It was written at the height of the post Oxford Movement (The Ritualist Movement) and few books have ever been written with such attention to the pastoral office of offering spiritual counsel to penitents.The introductory essay and brief history of the SSC is written by Scott D. deHart, Ph.D., a former member of the SSC and recognized scholar and researcher on 19th century controversies in the Church of England. He is the author of several works on this time period and was awarded his Ph.D. for his doctoral dissertation, "Anglo Catholics and the Vestment Controversy Literature with Special Reference to the Question of Authority." (1997, Wycliffe Hall, the University of Oxford; Coventry University; Alister McGrath advisor; Geoffrey Rowell, examiner)

69 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 25, 2011

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