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.
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.
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?
OK I have a
confession to make I normally
write Boho's Best Bits on a Saturday afternoon, which means you get a full spread
of this weeks wedding world BUT today I am
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Madge's message harkens back to Tina Fey's New Yorker piece «
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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
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