Quotes by Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline

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A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relie — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or s — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or 'in God's name I — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private c — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made — Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline