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Confession : Doorway to Forgiveness
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Confession : Doorway to Forgiveness Paper back - 2002

by JIM FOREST

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Orbis Books, February 2002. Paper Back. New. ''Far from being hidden, each sin is another crack in the world.'' To illustrate: ''I saw that although I thought my sin could be secret, that they are no more secret than an earthquake...It will pollute the drinking water. It will make noxious gases come out of the ventilators in the elementary school. When we scream in senseless anger, blocks away a little girl we do not know spills a bowl of gravy all over a white table cloth.'' Forest's point: sin is far more than a personal issue, and without confession, the Gospel makes little sense. Drawing from Scripture, the Church Fathers, literature, and his own (as well as others') personal experience, Forest brings us quietly to the act itself. Included is a helpful chapter on finding a confessor, guidelines for self-examination and Psalms in preparation for and after confession. He writes from the Orthodox perspective but isn't exclusive, proclaiming simply: ''Without confession, love is destroyed.'' 174 pp.
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  • Title Confession : Doorway to Forgiveness
  • Author JIM FOREST
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition Illustread editi
  • Condition New
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date February 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5515
  • ISBN 9781570753862 / 1570753865
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.41 x 0.52 in (20.98 x 13.74 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Orthodox
  • Library of Congress subjects Confession
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001055462
  • Dewey Decimal Code 264.020

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  • Foreword, 01/01/2002, Page 35

About the author

Jim Forest, was the author of many Orbis books, including All Is Grace, Living with Wisdom, and At Play in the Lions' Den (his biographies of peacemakers Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Daniel Berrigan). Other bestselling titles include Praying with Icons and Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir