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Confession: Courtroom or Hospital? Anglican, Orthodox & Catholic Compared

Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic views of confession and penance. Is confession primarily a courtroom — a sacramental tribunal where sins must be enumerated and satisfaction rendered? Or is it a hospital — a place of spiritual healing under the care of a priest as physician of souls? What did the Reformers actually reject? What did they retain? And where does Anglicanism truly stand between Rome and the East? Confession is not abolished in Anglicanism. But neither is it understood in a purely juridical framework. Let’s recover the pastoral, sacramental, and healing heart of absolution.