Confessionality

Quick meaning: Confessionality is a noun meaning The degree or quality of being confessional.

Meaning

The degree or quality of being confessional.

Example Sentences

That, in consequence of this, the task is conceived of in too limited a fashion, is made clear at the first glance, but the limitation arises only from the confessionality of this theology.

Confessionality is the foundation for the Lutheran concept of confessional fellowship (Bekenntnisgemeinschaft). By confessionality is meant the expression of Christian faith in a particular church tradition or denomination of Christianity. For Lutheran churches, the doctrinal basis for this particularity is found in the Bible, in Christian creeds and in the Lutheran confessional documents of the sixteenth century.

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Related dictionary entries include confidingness, confidentialness, confocality, confiningness, confidentiality, convictiveness.

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