Ebook: The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction: From Private to Public Confession; Part I: THE SHIFT TOWARD PUBLIC CONFESSION; Chapter 1 Grover the Good, Belshazzar Blaine, and the Rapacious Woman; Chapter 2 In the Presence of the Elect (With the World Looking On); Chapter 3 Aimee Sample McPherson and the Devil; Chapter 4 Confession Goes Public; Chapter 5 Ted Kennedy Misreads His Public; Part II: THE AGE OF PUBLIC CONFESSION; Chapter 6 Jimmy Carter, Traitor to the Cause; Chapter 7 Jim Bakker Shoots His Allies; Chapter 8 Jimmy Swaggart's Model Confession.;Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins carefully, using the essential elements of an evangelical confession identified by Susan Wise Bauer in The Art of the Public Grovel, and you, like Bill Clinton, just might survive. In this fascinating and important history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among nineteenth-century evangelicals has today become the req.