Sentence examples for confessional understanding from inspiring English sources

Like the Christian creeds that jump from Jesus' birth to his death and resurrection in single phrase, entirely skipping over his life, Paul paves the way for a confessional understanding of what it means to be a Christian.

Don't worry too much about understanding confessional poetry.

A Mother's Reckoning implicates the reader in its own search for understanding; it's part confessional, part grief-memoir, part apology and part activist literature.

Lorenzo Albacete's Lives column, "Secrets of the Confessional," was particularly effective, with its understanding of our universal need to be truthful when it pains us most.

Most university-educated Christian clergy could just as easily write this essay from within their confessional standpoint and embrace this historicized understanding of the New Testament.

I would say, over the course of my work as a poet, I have benefited from many screens of understanding to which might be added "confessional" and "documentary".

You'll be amazed at how people react, and you may gain a new respect for confessional poets because you may have a better understanding of what they might have faced for being so open.

There has been a tacit understanding, as if the seal of the confessional itself applied, that this nearly universal choice to disobey the Church not be spoken of.

The confessional mood encouraged by memoirs and blogs, as well as the self-help advocacy movement in mental health, have deepened the understanding of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

My work is a confessional".

But they're not confessional".