Healing not punishment: historical and pastoral networking of the penitentials between the sixth and eighth centuries
The entire conception of repentance and penance in the Oriental Church in the first six centuries is a remedial one: sin represents an ailment of the soul. The confessor is called upon to meet the confessing person as a spiritual physician or soul-friend. Penance does not mean punishment, but healin...
| Subtitles: | Healing not punishment$dpenitentials in the insular church |
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| Hōputu: | Print Pukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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Turnhout
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[2017]
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| In: |
Studia traditionis theologiae (25)
Year: 2017 |
| Rangatū: | Studia traditionis theologiae
25 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iroschottische Kirche
/ Bußbuch
/ Beichte
/ Buße
/ Heilung
/ Geschichte 500-800
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| IxTheo Classification: | SB Catholic Church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Buße
B Bußsakrament B Geschichte B Mittelalter B Sakramentenrecht B Recht |
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| Whakarāpopototanga: | The entire conception of repentance and penance in the Oriental Church in the first six centuries is a remedial one: sin represents an ailment of the soul. The confessor is called upon to meet the confessing person as a spiritual physician or soul-friend. Penance does not mean punishment, but healing like a salutary remedy. Nevertheless the lack of privacy led to the unwanted practice of postponing repentance and even baptism to the deathbed. An alternative procedure of repentance arose from the sixth century onwards in the Irish Church as well as in the Continental Church under the influence of Irish missionaries, and in the South-West-British and later the English Church (Insular Church). In treatises about repentance, called penitentials, ecclesiastical authorities of the sixth to the eight centuries wrote down regulations on how to deal with the different capital sins and minor trespasses committed by monks, clerics and laypeople. Church-representatives like Finnian, Columbanus, the anonymous author of the Ambrosianum, Cummean and Theodore developed a new conception of repentance that protected p1ivacy and guaranteed a discrete, afford-able as well as predictable penance, the paenitentia privata. They established an astonishing network in using their mutual interrelations. Here the earlier penitentials served as source for the later ones. But it is remarkable that the authors appeared as creative revisers, who took regard of the pastoral necessities of the entrusted flock. The aim of the authors was to enable the confessors to do the healing dialogue qualitatively in a high standard. The penitents should feel themselves healed, not punished |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | XIII, 358 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 2503575897 |