I. Religious Studies – II. Church History – III. Dogmatics – IV. Practical Theology – V. Missiology
I. Religious Studies
Confession and absolution, expressive of the substantiality of guilt (I) and the impact of the spoken word with its magico-ritual power, are among the “most widespread means of structured confrontation of the ego with itself” (Hahn & Knapp, 7). They appear already in tribal societ…