confessionalism
Americannoun
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Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
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In those days, it did not occur to much of the world to question Salinger’s choices, or to imagine that Maynard’s honesty might constitute not simply confessionalism but a brash kind of courage.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2019
So it’s rich that the more naked confessionalism of Scorpion also has been prompted by Kanye West.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2018
Mr. Antonoff’s blunt confessionalism always cedes to optimism, as on the disjointed but full-hearted single “I Wanna Get Better” — an anthem, and a title, that fully sum up his brand of vulnerability and pluck.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Whether on blogs or Facebook, in tweets or poems, what matters in confessionalism is not the dirty or trivial detail itself but the writing of it.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2012
Southern Synods Withdrawing.—One of the arguments advanced against confessionalism was that synods subscribing to all of the Lutheran symbols neither agreed in doctrine, nor succeeded in effecting a union.
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
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