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confessionalism

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Con`fes´sion`al`ism
n.1.(Eccl.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
confessionalism
an advocacy of the maintenance of a confession of faith as a prerequisite to membership in a religious group. — confessionalian, n., adj.
See also: Theology


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Perhaps that is the main reason why, historically, Lutheran Orthodoxy failed to allow this theological notion--or at the very least its radical implications for exegesis and theology--to penetrate the scholastic rigors of its confessionalism.
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Conservative orthodoxy includes fundamentalism, conservative evangelicalism, and conservative confessionalism.
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The augmentation of long-standing Baptist principles, most importantly soul competency and religious liberty, and a steady movement from confessionalism toward creedalism, have contributed to the problem.
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