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Ancient Christian writings record practices of confession and penance early on, but they show a range of forms—from public, once-in-a-lifetime public penance to private confession and episcopal reconc...
Catholic teaching points chiefly to John 20:21–23 and to practices rooted in Jewish sacrificial/atonement patterns and early Church custom as its biblical and historical grounds for sacramental confes...
Johann Eck’s attacks on Martin Luther in 1520–1521 centered on defending , while portraying Luther’s positions as tantamount to Hussite heresy; Eck combined scholastic argument, patristic citations, a...