Sentence examples for confessional statements from inspiring English sources

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches responded with their own confessional statements.

"Courts usually take a lenient view if confessional statements are made".

Because of the advance of the ecumenical movement, recent confessional statements have usually been unitive rather than divisive.

Lutherans subscribe to the three ancient ecumenical Christian creeds together with the 16th-century Lutheran confessional statements.

In the 17th century, Protestant theologians interpreted the confessional statements of the earlier century with an almost fanatic attention to detail.

Citing the confessional statements of some co-conspirators arrested in New Delhi and Kashmir shortly after the attack, Indian officials claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad were responsible.

Then, on a television wheeled up beside the witness stand, we were shown a grainy video of the defendant's confessional statement.

But he said it could not be used against him because "it was not a confessional statement, it was not a statement under oath, and any statement without oath, even before a judge, is not admissible".

Mr. Clinton may be betting that the House will blink first, or he may be waiting to make one final, more confessional statement closer to the House vote late next week.

In the ensuing negotiations over adoption of the confessional statement, he seemed to compromise, but the vigour of his Apology of the Confession of Augsburg (1531) belied any change.

The Apology and Confession quickly became Lutheran symbols (authoritative statements of faith), as did one other Melanchthon treatise, his Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, which was an addition to the Schmalkaldic Articles of 1536 37, another Lutheran confessional statement.