Sentences with phrase «write the confessions of»

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.

Accompanied by another set of three drawings, also abstract in form yet confessional in character; a small sculpture containing written confessions of people concealed with black ink; and a participatory drawing inviting visitors to write and then erase their own confessions, Sealed Confessions explores, as its title suggests, the act of confession as both a declaration of beliefs, intentions, and emotions and a call for privacy, confidentiality, and truth.

Not exact matches

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.

Ross writes, «Nonsacramental Christianity is one faithful way of embodying the shared confession of faith.

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.

He has cast into verse paraphrase St. Patrick's Confessions and Letter Against the Soldiers of Coroticus, along with the well «known Patrick's Breastplate, which was probably not written by the saint.

«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.

After soliciting questions and concerns from readers, I wrote a post entitled «Confessions of a Sponsorship Skeptic» that you can check out if you have questions yourself, and you can read all my posts from Bolivia here.

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

The fact that this address was written as a spiritual preparation for the office of confession does not limit its interest to those who observe church occasions.

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.

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.

Writing the Confessions about a decade after the cataclysmic event that altered the rest of his long and productive life, Augustine gave his readers a detailed account of his conversion — an event intimately intertwined with hearing and reading.

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.

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.»

No creed or confession has been written without political influences at work, but Pelikan maintains that the meaning or importance of any significant creed can not be reduced purely to its political implications.

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....

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.

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.

Among the myriad of creeds and confessions that have been written, there simply is no univocal testimony.

Teaching Catholic non-fiction does not mean teaching theology (or hagiography) but that does not mean that great Catholic theologians and priests need be excluded from the curriculum either: there could well be room for extracts from St. Augustine's Confessions or Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's The Road of Hope when looking at autobiographical writing, for instance.

According to the publisher's burb — presumably either approved or actually written by Cornwell — confession has «been a source of controversy and oppression, culminating... with the scandal of clerical child abuse.

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.

A confession of faith which he either wrote or endorsed contained Protestant elements.

«Textual ambiguities also make it clear... that whatever Job's last words may mean, they convey anything but a simple confession of sin,» Balentine writes.

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.

Edward T. Oakes» delightful and insightful review of Bryan Magee's Confessions of a Philosopher makes me wish that Father Oakes will someday write a similar book on his own philosophical autobiography.

I know that sometimes the sacraments are confusing but I do ask you to read the other scriptures that support confession and writing of the early church fathers.

Khan's confession caused a kerfuffle, but Hayley MacMillen at Refinery29 wrote an article that could have been taken out of the pages of The New I Do — all of us have options but when they deviate too far from what marriage is «supposed» to look like, watch out — especially if you talk about it publicly:

Between family biking, gardening, being a connected parent and wife and the sort of friend others can always count on for a drink when needed, Jennifer co-authors one blog with her oldest boy, Little View of a Big World, and writes her own, True Confessions of a Real Mommy.

BrownEyedGirl over at Confessions of a Shopaholic wrote a nice post about Wal Mart I thought I would share with you.

This post is part of a series of posts I am writing titled Diary of a Baby chronicling the candid confessions of a baby from 0 to 2 years old.

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

Would «Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen» have ever been written if she had eaten more broccoli?

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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.

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