ABSTRACT

Rediscovering Confession is about recovering the experience of confession, in danger now of becoming a lost art. It identifies four elements present in psychotherapy and confession: a state of heightened self-awareness, a growing realization that our predicament points in some meaningful direction beyond itself, the necessity to make a relevant response to our situation, and a potential for spiritual encounter that accompanies the process. Each chapter contains a section devoted to practice, with exercises for individual contemplation and experimentation, guidelines for forming a confessional partnership, directions for conducting discussions in a study goup, and ways to organize a small confessional group.

chapter 1|20 pages

Honest Confession

chapter 2|16 pages

The Full Confessional Experience

chapter 3|16 pages

Some Classical Confessions

Augustine and Patrick

chapter 4|17 pages

More Confessions

Tolstoy and Vonnegut

chapter 5|14 pages

The Trouble with Adam

chapter 6|16 pages

The Confessional Relationship

chapter 7|16 pages

Women in Confession

Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

chapter 8|25 pages

Contemporary Women Confessors

Karen Armstrong and Elaine Pagels

chapter 9|17 pages

The Enneagram

chapter 10|19 pages

The Truth of the Matter

chapter 11|16 pages

More Confessors

Bill Wilson and Recovery

chapter 12|25 pages

Predicament and Presence in Practice

chapter 13|16 pages

Forgiveness and Confessional Relationships

chapter 14|13 pages

Changing Our Minds

chapter 15|21 pages

The Compassionate Community