Assertion: confession | /r/HasProperty | public
Facets:
value: in the early church
type: LOCATION
value: necessarily
type: MANNER
value: to the act
type: OTHER
value: either way
type: OTHER
value: unashamedly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: This raises the question about whether confession should be private or public.
text: A confession is an unashamedly public act; it means that what we believe is neither secret nor windblown for individual taste.
text: A confession might occur privately or publicly, but either way there is a necessarily public aspect to the act of confessing.
text: In 1879, a decade after War and Peace and two years after Anna Karenina, and a decade before he set out to synthesize these philosophical findings in his Calendar of Wisdom, Tolstoy channeled the existential catastrophe of his inner life in A Confession (public library)
text: John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, held "the validity of Anglican practice in his day as reflected in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer", stating that "We grant confession to men to be in many cases of use: public, in case of public scandal; private, to a spiritual guide for disburdening of the conscience, and as a help to repentance.
text: This raises the question about whether confession should be private or public.
text: John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, held "the validity of Anglican practice in his day as reflected in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer", stating that "We grant confession to men to be in many cases of use: public, in case of public scandal; private, to a spiritual guide for disburdening of the conscience, and as a help to repentance.
text: By this point, remember that he has already cast aside his good name by confessing to lechery with Abigail Williams, so whether his confession to witchcraft is public or not really doesn't matter anymore, his name is ruined anyway.
text: In the early Church both confession and penance were public.
text: John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, held "the validity of Anglican practice in his day as reflected in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer", stating that "We grant confession to men to be in many cases of use: public, in case of public scandal; private, to a spiritual guide for disburdening of the conscience, and as a help to repentance.
text: In the early Church, confession was public; that is, one confessed one’s sins in the presence of the entire faith community.
text: John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, held "the validity of Anglican practice in his day as reflected in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer", stating that "We grant confession to men to be in many cases of use: public, in case of public scandal; private, to a spiritual guide for disburdening of the conscience, and as a help to repentance.