Sentences with phrase «in writing his confessions»

In writing his confessions, Augustine adopted and adapted an esoteric reading practice and provided one of the texts that would demonstrate and perpetuate this practice.

Not exact matches

Todashev reportedly implicated Tamerlan in the triple murder, but attacked an FBI agent before he could sign a written confession.

Authorities say he acknowledged involvement a triple murder in Waltham, Mass., on Sept. 11, 2011 and implicated Tsarnaev — but he had not yet signed a written statement based on the alleged confession when he was shot.

In his book «Confessions,» written between A.D. 397 and A.D. 400, the classic scholar St. Augustine of Hippo wrote: «I saw with my own eyes and I observed carefully a young child devoured by jealousy.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

«Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession,» he wrote in The Cost of Discipleship.

As Gertrude Himmelfarb has written, in place of the «confession (la Augustine) of one's own faults and sins, it is today «more often a «confession» of the faults and sins of others — of parents, lovers, friends, associates, or, if need be, of society at large.»

The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

I wrote, «Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

Many modern scholars think that the gospel accounts of both Peter's confession and the transfiguration were written in the light of the resurrection.

My reticence to declare Shakespeare's religious affiliation also disturbs David Beauregard, who writes that I may be setting the «bar of proof absurdly high,» and who wonders why the Catholic patterns I find in the plays do not persuade me of the playwright's personal confession.

This selectivity leads to a crucial irony of the genre: Written confessions are not in fact direct representations of the true person but are works of artifice, including and omitting details by design.

When the novelist William Styron used his imagination to write The Confessions of Nat Turner, many voices were raised not only in disparagement of his novel but also against his even attempting to make the leap of races and conditions.

With every unnecessary detail, which Orwell observed is the «outstanding, unmistakable mark of Dickens's writing,» he shows us what Augustine observed in book 7 of the Confessions: Whatsoever thing exist are good.

As Paul David Tripp wrote in What Did You Expect, «No healing takes place that does not begin with confession.»

St. Augustine's deep reflections in this area led Bertrand Russell to praise his «admirable relativistic theory of time», and Steven Weinberg has noted that «it seems to have become a tradition to quote from [Augustine's Confessions] in writing about quantum cosmology.»

Figure out how to put such pieces together in a coherent whole, and you are doing theology; suggest the answer you figured out to your fellow Christians, and you are proposing doctrine; write down what you and they agree on, and you have produced a confession.

In July 1989, he wrote me: «But of course I am of the opinion that the origin and existence of the various confessions is not only a misfortune, that it is not only «division» and destruction of unity, but that it also signifies a working toward the good in the divine plan for unity and that in diversification the Holy Spirit is aiming at unity in accordance with the New Testament..In July 1989, he wrote me: «But of course I am of the opinion that the origin and existence of the various confessions is not only a misfortune, that it is not only «division» and destruction of unity, but that it also signifies a working toward the good in the divine plan for unity and that in diversification the Holy Spirit is aiming at unity in accordance with the New Testament..in the divine plan for unity and that in diversification the Holy Spirit is aiming at unity in accordance with the New Testament..in diversification the Holy Spirit is aiming at unity in accordance with the New Testament..in accordance with the New Testament....

St Augustine wrote in his «Confessions» «I was deeply moved by the sweet chants of your church»; they were still being sung in the churches 700 years later during the Norman invasion; they were still being sung in the priest holes of England in the seventeenth century; these same chants were sung at Masses celebrated during two world wars.

There's a passage in The Confessions where St. Augustine writes «My weight is my love.»

To Conrad Cordatus and Nicholas Hausmann he wrote triumphant letters on 6 July: «I am tremendously pleased to have lived to this moment when Christ has been publicly proclaimed by his staunch confessors in such a great assembly by means of this really most beautiful confession», and «Our confession (which our Philip prepared) has been, publicly read by Dr Christian [Beyer, Saxon Chancellor], right in the palace of the Emperor... There is no one in this whole Diet whom our friends praise more highly for his peacefulness than the Emperor himself... all are filled with affection and applause...» He had heard from Jonas that he had studied the Emperor's face during the reading of the Confession and there was a certain humanitas in it.

A Very Brief History of Eternity by Carlos Eire Princeton, 258 pages, $ 24.95 Carlos Eire, A Yale professor and the author of the 2003 National Book Award winner Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, is clearly capable of remembering and writing about the smells and tastes and....

O'Connor, elsewhere in her letters, writes of what it means to agonize over one's sin, to wonder «if your confessions have been adequate and if you are compounding sin on sin.»

Baptists take pride in having no written Confessions; but they have an unwritten, de facto tradition that is every bit as scholastic as the formal de jure traditions of the Confessional denominations.

In his Confessions he wrote: Fecisti nos ad te et cor nostrum inquietum est donee requiescat in tIn his Confessions he wrote: Fecisti nos ad te et cor nostrum inquietum est donee requiescat in tin te.

Reflecting on this experience, I realized that there is the academic payoff for me: the recognition that there can be no meaningful social ethics written today that does not have complicity written into the heart of it — not as a cheap confession but as an appreciation of the corporateness which binds us one to another in hope and in guilt.

In his book, Confessions of a Reformission Rev, Driscoll writes about how he posted as «William Wallace II» on the discussion board on his church Web site.

Now he's written a memoir based on his diplomatic life in Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin (HarperPress, # 20)

I have a confession, I am actually writing this on Thursday evening, I have been away from the office since Friday as Nik and I are in Dorset visiting Nik's best mate, Matt, his wife Lucy and their baby Sonny.

I have a confession and a decision to share with you... I've written this post over and over in my head.

[in case you m i s s e d it] → On Wednesday I posted my first ever «Confessions» post and had so much fun writing it.

Madge's message harkens back to Tina Fey's New Yorker piece «Confessions of a Juggler,» in which she wrote: «I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of «crazy» in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.»

He has written six books: Confessions of a Window Dresser, Wacky Chicks, a memoir entitled Beautiful People and tongue - in - cheek style guides entitled Eccentric Glamour and Gay Men Don't Get Fat.

In my book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online, in Chapter 14, I wrote about «The Boy Next Door.&raquIn my book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online, in Chapter 14, I wrote about «The Boy Next Door.&raquin Chapter 14, I wrote about «The Boy Next Door.»

I recently wrote an essay, Can Love Survive Trump, where I revealed my big confession on how I struggled in my relationship with my long - term love.

In 2009, Julie Spira wrote The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online to help singles find love.

After I was successful at finding love in my middle years, I wrote two books on the subject — The Love Magnet Rules, and Confessions of a Middle - Aged Babe Magnet.

In 2009, Julie Spira wrote The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online to... (read more)

I frequently write about the marriage of love and technology and used my social media savvy to launch my first book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online in 2009.

I chose to write about our breakup, and the subsequent relationships that followed in my bestselling book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online, which was released seven years ago on Valentine's Day.

When I first started writing my book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online in the early 1990s, it was as a result of an online beau from across the country who had been courting me for months.

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

This just in... literally as I'm putting this post to bed: Sue William Silverman — author of the memoirs Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You and Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction — reports that her writing craft book Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir has received an Honorable Mention in ForeWord Review's Book - of - the - Year award competition in the category writing.

March 1: Pretty Opinionated March 2: A Cozy Readers Corner March 3: Suddenly Books March 4: M. Scott Fiction March 5: Makobi Scribe March 6: Workaday Reads March 7: Luxury Reading March 8: Indie Author How To March 9: Books, Books, the Magical Fruit March 10: Jennifer Hubbard Blogspot March 11: College Aftermath March 12: Spellbound By Books March 13: Ramen Rent Resumes March 14: To Be Determined March 15: Writing is a Blessing March 16: Graduated and Clueless March 17: The Daily Harrell March 18: VVB 32 Reads March 19: 2 Read or Not 2 Read March 20: Enter Adulthood March 21: Jamie's Precious Peas March 22: Tiger's All Consuming Books March 23: Bookshelf Confessions March 24: What Book Is That March 25: Reflections with Coffee March 26: The Top Shelf March 27: Bibliognome March 28: Tifferz Book Review March 29: The Minding Spot March 30: My Life on the Midlist March 31: My Neurotic Book Affair April 1: Buried in Books April 2: Reading Away the Days April 3: FWIW Reviews April 4: The True Book Addict April 5: Mary's Book Blogger April 6: Donna's Blog Home April 7: Ednah Walters Blogspot April 8: Giving n» Sharing April 9: Indie Designz April 10: Made By Jess April 11: Silver Solara April 12: Sharon Henning Blogspot April 13: LB Writes April 14: Book Lovers Paradise April 15: Turknoy April 16: So Simple Sara April 17: Wakela's World April 18: Earth's Book Nook April 19: Lori Calabrese Writes April 20: Grad Meets World April 21: Stressed Rach April 22: Is It Amazing April 23: The Mod Podge Bookshelf April 24: Sapphyria's Book Reviews April 25: Simple Love of Reading April 26: Bookingly Yours April 27: Life After College April 28: Smiley Boy Knows Best April 29: e-Volving Books April 30: Build Creative Writing Ideas

Schroder is written in the form of Eric's confession, complete with his sometimes discursive footnotes.

Or you can see it in the anger which greeted Will Self's confession that he doesn't «really write for readers».

She writes under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ani Bolton.She has written two novels as Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter — both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President's teen - aged daughter, published by HarperCollins, and Tamara Blake, for the novel Slumber.

Drawing on insights and examples gleaned from the past 1,400 years of essay writing, we'll explore questions including how much confession is too much confession, what an essay can (or should) do, and what you might want to do in your own experiments with the genre.

Amanda L Grossman @ Frugal Confessions writes The Groundhog Day Financial Lesson I am Doomed to Live Over and Over Again — Have you ever had a lesson in life appear over and over again, and you feel as though you are doomed to attempt to learn it for the rest of your foreseeable

In the artist statement for Here Lie the Secrets, Calle writes of the confession of a secret as the ultimate proof of intimacy.