SC Governor reappears...after going to Argentina?

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I had wondered if Anglicans/Episcopalians had dropped confession entirely since there was a desire to get away from priestly intermediaries for the OP (Original Protestants).

To me, it seems like such a basic spiritual need to respond to, although I find the Catholic requirement too intense to be comfortable personally.

Don't most protestant denominations preach confession through prayer to God?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Don't most protestant denominations preach confession through prayer to God?

I think so. I'm (kind of a lame) Roman Catholic, so I'm not 100% sure.

I realize that I may have written that post about confession stupidly. I didn't mean the idea of confessing sins in general as much as I meant a sacrament involving a priest that you confessed to.

It's the priest's response to the confession that I think gives people a real sense of forgiveness sometimes. Your faith in your forgiveness is backed up by someone immediately.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I had wondered if Anglicans/Episcopalians had dropped confession entirely since there was a desire to get away from priestly intermediaries for the OP (Original Protestants).

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Don't most protestant denominations preach confession through prayer to God?

Yes. I think it is something that the Anglicans got away from originally -- it started making a comeback with the Oxford/Anglo-Catholic Movement in the 19th Century.

So far as I know, Luther was the only one of the Reformers who advocated retaining personal confession to a member of the clergy, though I don't know that it has ever been widely practiced among Lutherans.

And shoot, these days even the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship has an order for what is essentially private confession, though I've never heard of anyone using it.