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Definition of Confessionalism
1. n. An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
Definition of Confessionalism
1. Noun. a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching. ¹
2. Noun. a style of American poetry that drew on the personal history of the poet ¹
3. Noun. (''in Lebanon'') a system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confessionalism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confessionalism
Literary usage of Confessionalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Germany; Its Universities, Theology and Religion: With Sketches of Neander by Philip Schaff (1857)
"... The Age of Unionism and confessionalism-—The Unionists with their three
Subdivisions, the Centre, the Eight Wing, and the Left Wing—The Lutherans—The ..."
2. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"What is remarkable, for the present purposes, about this culture of confessionalism
and celebrity-seeking is not that demand has called forth supply, ..."
3. The Mercersburg Review by Reformed Church in the United States Publication Board, Franklin and Marshall College Alumni Association (1858)
"In the relation here between the older confessionalism and the confessionalism
of later times, which is to be considered first and which second; ..."
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