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- noun Plural form of
confessionalist .
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Examples
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Furthermore, Olson doesn't look at the arguments of "confessionalists" who argue for a non-arbitrary definition of 'Reformed.'
Triablogue 2009
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The difference between the gross complaints of the early confessionalists, who, steeped in serious appreciation of psychoanalysis, were down on Daddy, is that now the confessional poets don't know who to turn to but Daddy, even in the midst of their worst depressions.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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The difference between the gross complaints of the early confessionalists, who, steeped in serious appreciation of psychoanalysis, were down on Daddy, is that now the confessional poets don't know who to turn to but Daddy, even in the midst of their worst depressions.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Over here you have the post-avant prose poets, over there the kitchen-sink confessionalists, and across the road are the shiny formalists -- and no one ever breaks bread together.
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Over here you have the post-avant prose poets, over there the kitchen-sink confessionalists, and across the road are the shiny formalists -- and no one ever breaks bread together.
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In the fact that it made the creeds of little importance and fell back on Schleiermacher's emphasis upon feeling, the movement came to have the character also of an attempt to find a middle way between confessionalists and rationalists.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900
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None since Kant, except extreme confessionalists, and those in diminishing degree, have held that the great effect of the work of
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900
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The consequence was that a decade later the hearts of the General Synod's anti-confessionalists were filled with fear and consternation.
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Marie Bashkirtseff, [27] who may be taken as one of the best types of exaggerated adolescent confessionalists, was rich and of noble birth, and began in 1873, at the age of twelve, to write a journal that should be absolutely true and frank, with no pretense, affectation, or concealment.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) will not make progress toward reconciling her racial history unless the denomination's doctrinalists (i.e., confessionalists) lead us in being biblically and confessionally self-critical.
The Institute 2010
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