Confession
The Healing of the Soul
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2017
240 pages
978-1-4729-3433-8 (ISBN)
Description
A new pastoral contribution on the enduring subject of confession in Christian life.
Confession: The Healing of the Soul is not just about what is termed sacramental confession. Its frame of reference is much wider and includes discussion of those celebrated writers who wrote confessions - Augustine, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Foucault, Freud, Jung, John of the Cross and Wittgenstein.
This book will be of interest to all Christians of any denomination who engage in sacramental confession - clergy but also pastoral workers and those millions who actually attend confession as part of their lives. In the post-Freudian age confession of any kind has had a bad press but is now coming back into popularity as guilt and sin become helpful concepts.
Peter Tyler, an author and practicing psychotherapist, argues that rather than being something to consign to the rubbish heap of history, confession offers unexplored potential for the healing of the postmodern soul. The book addresses all those engaged in psychotherapeutic and healing practices and ministries.
Confession: The Healing of the Soul is not just about what is termed sacramental confession. Its frame of reference is much wider and includes discussion of those celebrated writers who wrote confessions - Augustine, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Foucault, Freud, Jung, John of the Cross and Wittgenstein.
This book will be of interest to all Christians of any denomination who engage in sacramental confession - clergy but also pastoral workers and those millions who actually attend confession as part of their lives. In the post-Freudian age confession of any kind has had a bad press but is now coming back into popularity as guilt and sin become helpful concepts.
Peter Tyler, an author and practicing psychotherapist, argues that rather than being something to consign to the rubbish heap of history, confession offers unexplored potential for the healing of the postmodern soul. The book addresses all those engaged in psychotherapeutic and healing practices and ministries.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
No illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-3433-8 (9781472934338)
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Book
10/2017
Bloomsbury Continuum
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Person
Peter Tyler is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Pastoral Theology at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK. Previous publications include The Return to the Mystical: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition (Continuum, 2011) and The Pursuit of the Soul: Psychoanalysis, Soul-making and the Christian Tradition (T & T Clark, 2016).
Content
Introduction: Why Confession?
1 The Confessing Animal
2 The Birth of Confession and the Tristan Wound
3 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Confessions
4 God's Laughter: The Confessions of Swami Abhishiktananda
5 Confessions of Fire: St John of the Cross
Epilogue: Confession - The Healing of the Soul
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A Note on the Author
1 The Confessing Animal
2 The Birth of Confession and the Tristan Wound
3 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Confessions
4 God's Laughter: The Confessions of Swami Abhishiktananda
5 Confessions of Fire: St John of the Cross
Epilogue: Confession - The Healing of the Soul
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A Note on the Author
