Dans un XIXe siècle souvent présenté comme celui de la « sécularisation » société, comment s’articulent les lois civiles et pénales avec prérogatives du clergé, en particulier le secret confession, sacramentel ? S’il est rapidement défini par jurisprudence française inviolable, celui-ci alimente rubriques fait divers, mais aussi toute une série productions journalistiques fictionnelles, qui mob...

The Belhar Confession is perhaps the most significant barrier in process of church reunification South Africa. This article reflects upon critique voiced against by DRC and opponents confession. mainly focuses on issues that it confesses no new beliefs, setting its origin connection with black theology. study indicates Belhar, like other Reformed confessions, confessed beliefs originated within...

One hundred ninety-two students participated in an experimental simulation testing whether incentives would reduce the reluctance of informants to implicate a close other. Half of the students were made to feel interpersonally close to a confederate who either admitted to or denied a misdeed. All students were interrogated and encouraged to sign a secondary confession stating that the confedera...

False confessions extracted during police interrogations have been linked to the wrongful conviction of innocent people (Drizin & Leo, 2004; Dwyer, Neufeld, & Scheck, 2000). Many scientific, legal, and political leaders have called for mandatory videotaping of custodial interrogations as one solution to this troubling problem (e.g., Drizin & Reich, 2004). However, the well-documented phenomenon...

Abstract “A Brief Sketch of the Christian Faith,” published in 1632, was written by Conradus Vorstius 1620, at request Johannes Uytenbogaert. Uytenbogaert needed a Confession for Remonstrant Society he had just founded, and asked to assist committee that established its production. Vorstius, who time lived difficult conditions, unable deliver full text, but managed provide this Sketch, which su...

In A Lover's Complaint, Shakespeare registers concerns about a penitent's inability to overcome the effects of sin and emphasizes the importance of private or auricular confession. By representing what amounts to be the confession ofa 'fickle maid' (5) to a 'reverend man' (57), Shakespeare underscores the paradox of the Protestant confessional model: if a penitent can be forgiven of sins withou...