Rediscovering Confession: The Practice of Forgiveness and Where it Leads
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
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.
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- Identifies four elements present in psychotherapy and confession.
- Contains a section devoted to practice, with exercises for individual contemplation.
- Helps organize a small confessional group.
Rediscovering Confession is a profound reflection on the long neglected art of confession. It is, at once, a wide ranging exploration of the history and types of consciousness and a practical, step by step, guide to recovering this lost spiritual discipline. Follow the path it lays out and you will find that, in truth, confession is good for your soul.
- Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly, Hymns to an Unknown God, Sightings, and more
In this thought-provoking book, Dr. Steere admirably and courageously raises awareness of the necessity to bring back the almost lost art of “confession.” He does with confession what Karl Menninger did with sin. Readers are invited to move beyond childhood experiences and formulate mature ones in their ongoing pilgrimage of spiritual growth through confession of sin and faith.
- Pat Otwell, DMin, author of Guide to Ministering to Alzheimer’s Patients and Their Families
Rediscovering Confession is both thorough and readable...Steere’s writing is organzed and creative...an excellent book for chaplains...Rediscovering Confession would be a welcome addition to the libraries of chaplains, ministers, social workers, and “ordinary” folk involded in any form of intimate exchange.
- Mary Stubbs, MDiv., D.Mus., in Chaplaincy Today