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Excerpt from Penance in the Early Church, With a Short Sketch of Subsequent Development: Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Theology in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, for the Degree of Doctor in Divinity
Why appeal to the early centuries? Why trouble ourselves about the past? Why direct attention to practices that have long passed away, or bring the ghosts of vanished ages to haunt the living world of to-day? These are questions we are sometimes tempted to ask ourselves when confronted with the actual living problems of present-day life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
