Originally conceived and highly readable, Confession ranges ecumenically and with encyclopedic rigor over four centuries of the theology and practice of penance in America. Patrick Carey has written a book that historians of Catholicism in America, ethicists and moral theologians, liturgists, and scholars of American religious history will have to read. There is nothing else like it.
Patrick Carey is Emeritus Professor of Theology at Marquette University. He was the William J. Kelly Chair in Catholic Theology, the former Chair of Marquette's Department of Theology, a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, author of over thirty articles on American Catholic life and thought, and the author or editor of twenty books, including his 2010 intellectual biography, Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ: A Model
Theologian.