Confession...by Adrienne von Speyr

The mystic Von Speyr discusses the moral and practical aspects of the sacrament in great depth. Some of the many areas covered include conversion, scruples, contrition, spiritual direction, laxity, frequency of confession.

The new element in the author's understanding of confession...an element fully developed in this book, is its' trinitarian and particularly its christological basis. The Cross (and with it the entire Incarnation of the Son) is the archetypal confession, and Christian sacramental confession thus is imitation of Christ in the strict sense. The present volume examines the enormous fruitfulness of this dogmatic basis from many perspectives. The author gives us less a closed system than a wealth of suggestions which both the theological expert and the layman will want to pursue."" From the Foreword"