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For example, he could choose to mention "I've heard the confession of a sex offender", or "I've almost never heard anyone explicitly confess a failure to help the poor." However, the Catholic Church punishes with excommunication latae sententiae anyone who records by any technical means or divulges what is said by the confessor or penitent. [18 ...
The Hungarian Confession (1570) Second Scotch Confession (1580) Irish Articles of Religion (1615) Canons of Dordt (1618–19) Westminster Confession of Faith 1646; Savoy Declaration 1658; Helvetic Consensus (1675) Second London Confession of Faith (1677/1689) Walcheren Articles (1693) The Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith. (1823)
This category consists of articles which discuss historical Christian creeds, confessions or statements of faith. These texts would have been written over a period of time by a number of contributors and officially adopted by the church involved.
Confession of the English Congregation at Geneva (1556) [3] Guanabara Confession of Faith (1558) [5] Authored by Huguenots in South America; French Confession of Faith (1559) Confession of the Christian Faith (1559) [2]: 19 Belgic Confession (1561) Second Helvetic Confession (1562) Erlauthal Confession (1562) [2]: 18 Hungarian Confession (1562 ...
In Christianity, confessionalism is a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a movement's or denomination's teachings, such as those found in Confessions of Faith, which followers believe to be accurate summaries of the teachings found in Scripture and to show their distinction from other groups - they hold to the Quia form of confessional subscription.
The Sacrament of Penance [a] (also commonly called the Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession) is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church (known in Eastern Christianity as sacred mysteries), in which the faithful are absolved from sins committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community.
The Confession was attractive to some Reformed leaders as a corrective to what they saw as the overly Lutheran statements of the Strasbourg Consensus. An attempt was made in early 1566 to have all the churches of Switzerland sign the Second Helvetic Confession as a common statement of faith. [5]
The purpose of the Larger Catechism was to help ministers prepare their own catechesis, as they taught the faith to their congregations in preaching, [1] while the purpose of the Shorter Catechism was to educate children and others "of weaker capacity" (according to a preface written by the Church of Scotland) in the Reformed faith.