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Definition: confession from Philip's Encyclopedia

Acknowledgement of sins. In the Jewish and Christian traditions, it may be made by a congregation in the course of worship, or by individual penitents.

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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In religion, the confession of sins practised in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and most Far Eastern Christian churches, and since the early 19th century revived in Anglican and Lutheran churches. It is the sacrament of penance (sorrow for sin). Confession to a priest (who in Catholic doctrine is divinely invested with authority to give absolution ) was made obligatory at least once a year by the Lateran Council in 1215, although more frequent confession is encouraged. Both John the Baptist's converts and the early Christian church practised public confession. The Roman Catholic penitent in recent times has always confessed alone to the priest in a confessional box , but from 1977 such individual confession might be preceded by group discussion, or the confession itself might be made openly by members of the group. Christians confess their sins to a priest to demonstrate sorrow at having sinned, and promise to try not to sin in the future. The priest forgives in God's name, using the…
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From Book of Bible Quotations
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
in law, the formal admission of criminal guilt, usually obtained in the course of examination by the police or prosecutor or at trial. For a confession to be admissible as evidence against an accused individual, it generally must have been procured voluntarily after the person was informed of his or…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In religion, the confession of sins practised in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and most Far Eastern Christian churches, and since the early 19th century revived in Anglican and Lutheran churches. It is the sacrament of penance (sorrow for sin). Confession to a priest (who in Catholic doctrine is…
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Full text Article Confessions

From Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
ca. 400 Work Author: Saint Augustine St. Augustine's most popular and most discussed book is his Confessions , a spiritual autobiography that traces his spiritual journey through several stages until his ultimate conversion and embracing of the faith for which he was to become the most notable of…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In law, a criminal's admission of guilt. Since false confessions may be elicited by intimidation or ill treatment of the accused, the validity of confession in a court of law varies from one legal system to another. For example, in England and Wales a confession, without confirmatory evidence, is…
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From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
A confession is a statement made by an individual that admits facts revealing his or her guilt to all the elements of a particular crime. Because confessions play a key role in any system of criminal justice, how law enforcement officers may obtain confessions is a central issue. In general, a…
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From Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context
The Elizabethan theatre depended greatly on ritual, formulaic and conventional motifs and procedures, so that the sequences of such established occasions as marriages , funerals and trials provided natural set pieces of drama with rhetoric , devices and allusions ready-made. Since many plays turn on…
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From Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed
see also Crimes and Criminals , Faith and Faithfulness , Faults , God , Guilt , Honesty and Dishonesty , Priests , Religions , Sins and Sinners “I'm going up there on that platform to tell the people the truth. To tell what a liar and cheat I've been and neither you nor anybody else is going to stop…
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Full text Article LES CONFESSIONS (THE CONFESSIONS), 1764-1770

From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's infamous first autobiography is often read as equivocally both self-justifying and self-inventing. On the one hand, it was composed during his years in exile following the condemnation of Émile, ou l'education ( Émile, or On Education, 1762), his treatise on human nature and…
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From Dictionary of Forensic Psychology
‘In criminal law, the confession evidence is considered to be the most damaging form of evidence produced at a trial’ (Conti 1999). A confession, however, might in fact be false, the accused not having committed the criminal act. The consequences are a miscarriage of justice where the individual is…
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