Sentences with phrase «between confessional»

Unlike the priest - penitent example, and quite apart from any distinction drawn on formal differences between the confessional and merely confiding in a religious adviser, the appellants did not communicate with Leon to fulfill a religious purpose or spiritual need.

The virulent conflicts between confessional churches and their theologies undermined confidence in the unity of faith and reason.

The fusion that we have observed between the confessional pole and the narrative pole of testimony has a considerable hermeneutical significance.

We can readily see the major differences between the confessional postmodernism of Stanley Hauerwas and the postmodernism of process thinkers.

(The growing relationship between confessional Lutherans and Catholics around the world is something I've addressed elsewhere on First Things.

Not exact matches

Some participants were disturbed by a disconnection between the often Trinitarian, confessional worship and the political and moral rhetoric.

The big division is between the «evangelical» and the «confessional» parties.

The partnership between the home and the church, the sheer effort by all involved in Erik's catechesis is a parable of confessional witness in a culture indifferent or hostile to an active and living word.

They call the kind of time that brought forth the Barmen Declaration a status confessionis, a «confessional situation,» in which the church, in order to be true to itself and its message, must distinguish as clearly as possible between truth and error.

Lima offers advice on how to continue constructive dialogue between the diverse groups, recognizing the need to balance renewed doctrinal study with confessional unity.

As did his friend in the Lutheran Church, he took a mediating position between two extreme parties — the Pietists and the strict Confessional orthodox.

By this designation Barth does not refer to confessional differences, say, between Roman Catholics and Protestants, nor to different theological camps such as conservatives and liberals.

This confessional postmodernism is based on a «tripod,» three interrelated legs: (1) an ethics of character and virtue, (2) the cultivation and shaping of character and virtue through an ongoing participation in the Christian story and narrative, and (3) a separatist understanding of the relationship between the church and the world.

As Pelikan points out, the confessional texts from just the one German province of Franconia in the decade between 1520 and 1530 add up to more than 500 pages.

At this point, there is an obvious affinity between the process conceptuality and the work of the confessional postmodernist thinker; in fact, they complement each other.

A century ago the Protestant churches in North America were divided between those who sought to defend the confessional integrity of their churches and those who believed that some form of compromise with the modern worldview was inevitable and desirable.

This difference between divine and human justice makes necessary the secrecy of the confessional» what the penitent confesses is for God's tribunal of mercy alone, not for men.

Noll and Nystrom next survey the international bilateral dialogues on matters of doctrine that followed in the wake of Vatican II between the Roman Catholic Church, on the one hand, and the various «world confessional families» or «Christian world communions,» on the other.

Today it is commonplace to point out that the major fault line within academic theology goes between conservatives and liberals rather than between different confessional traditions.

Sure, there's a difference in the Confessional, but the same holds true between Rome and the other Communions, some of whom are very close indeed to the older creed — it depends on how far they are removed from the personal.

There is a traditional main - line position that favors the confessional Catholic state as the ideal type of relationship between church and state.

This parenting guide for working mothers blends confessional stories and hands - on strategies to help women navigate the tug - of - war between work and motherhood.

What takes place between us is inviolable as if under the seal of the confessional.»»

coordinating national policies and brokering compromise between member states in the Council («confessional system») management and administration of the Council, external and internal representation;

There was no disparity between the arguments of the prosecution counsel and the defence counsel and the evidence was not contradicted by the confessional statements of the defendants.

There's a difference between the character Cave plays on stage and in his songwriting and the one we see here in the film who is candid, confessional and though immensely talented, at times rather ordinary.

With its convincing depictions of Margo Robbie [apparently] executing Harding's signature triple axel in mind - blowing competition figure skating sequences, «I, Tonya» (written by screenwriter Steven Rogers) adopts a narrative style that flips between direct - to - camera confessionals and straight - ahead drama.

Even without taking under account the evident, constant battle between both characters» «little angels and demons,» there are indeed several religious images throughout «Changing Lanes» and my guess is that Michell tried to make a not so subtle parallel between both characters escalating wrong - doings and Christ's dying for our transgressions, not unlike the ones depicted here, only for them to end the film by actually achieving a redemption of sorts similar to Christ's resurrection, which for both characters in the film seemed so elusive throughout this day, even in moments such as the one when the movie manages to casually place the character played by Affleck (a non-Catholic, I think) inside a confessional with a priest, no less.

Tensions between wholeness and fracture manifest in a maximalist confessional mode.

Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open - air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday's private practice of confessing in secret and today's more performative and secular version of confession.

In a UK premiere of DISCOTROPIC Alien Talk Show (2015), niv Acosta seizes on an elementary medium of intimate exposure — television and the confessional culture of the talk show — to explore the relationships between science fiction, disco, astrophysics and the black American experience.

In his synopsis of the Ask Chuleta series, Sirmans explains that by «using the easily accessible D.I.Y. aesthetic of much video art, Raimundi - Ortiz's performance explores the televisual world in a realm between public - access cable television and the confessionals of reality TV.»

Her work and confessional visual language, inspired and influenced by confessional artists Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, grows from her fascination with, and empathy for, the constant existential duel between the isolated individual and the shared awareness of the group.