Rediscovering Confession The Practice of Forgiveness and Where it Leads [Paperback]

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.

Honest Confession. A Full Confessional Experience. Some Classical Confessions: Augustine and Patrick. More Confessions: Tolstoy and Vonnegut. The Trouble with Adam. The Confessional Relationship. Women in Confession: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp. Contemporary Women Confessors: Karen Armstrong and Elaine Pagels. The Enneagram. The Truth of the Matter. More Confessions: Bill Wilson and Recovery. Predicament and Presence in Practice. Forgiveness and Confessional Relationships. Changing Our Mind. The Compassionate Community.

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 l+