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A confessional is a box, cabinet, booth, or stall where the priest in some Christian churches sits to hear the confessions of penitents. It is the typical venue for the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Churches , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but similar structures are also used in Anglican churches of an Anglo-Catholic orientation.
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.
Sujono Hadinoto was born on 28 June 1915, in Blora, Central Java, in what was then the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).He began his education at a Hollandsch-Inlandsche School and a Hogere Burgerschool, before advancing to the Rechts Hogeschool in Batavia, graduating in 1942.
This had the consequence of creating distinctive confessional identities that influenced church dogma, faith formation, liturgy, and the development of universities. The German historian Ernst Walter Zeeden first described the phenomenon of 'confession building' ( Konfessionsbildung ) in the 1950s.
After ten years of liberal cabinets, of which Pierson cabinet was the most recent, the liberals suffered a significant loss in the 1901 general election.The confessional parties obtained 47 seats in the first round on 14 June and rose to 58 of the 100 seats in the second round of voting.
The Seal of the Confessional (also Seal of Confession or Sacramental Seal) is a Christian doctrine forbidding a priest from disclosing any information learned from a penitent during Confession. This doctrine is recognized by several Christian denominations: Seal of the Confessional (Anglicanism) Seal of confession in the Catholic Church
The confessional state is largely gone in the Western World, although in the Middle East, the confessional state still exists, particularly in Lebanon. The form of government known as the Islamic republic is still quite common in the area as well. A number of modern countries have state religions; they usually also allow freedom of religion.
The Batak Christian Protestant Church (Indonesian: Huria Kristen Batak Protestan), abbreviated as HKBP, is an Evangelical Lutheran church among the Batak ethnic group, generally the Toba Batak people of Indonesia.