Histoire de la penitence des origines a nos jours

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Histoire de la penitence des origines a nos jours. By Philippe Rouillard. [Petits Cerf-Histoire.] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 1996. Pp. 210. 140 FE)

This concise survey of penance from the New Testament to the present is at once a history of the subject and a historical document. It is history written from the perspective of the present, by a not-disinterested reformer. The author is a Benedictine monk who teaches sacramental theology at St. Anselm's in Rome, and thus knows his subject. Aside from certain emphases one might quarrel with, the only error I found was the identification of De ...

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