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Confessionalism
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1. Definition and historyThe term
confessionalism is commonly treated as roughly synonymous with confessionalization (“Age of Confessionalism” for the Confessional Age or the Era of Confessionalization), usually with negative connotations; it serves to denote modes of behavior and attitudes that champion confessional positions, claiming their contemporary validity to a degree felt to be improper, anachronistic, or ecumenically unacceptable. The German term
Konfessionalismus was first used around 1830 as a pejorative battle cry of liberal theologians a…
Date:
2019-10-14