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	The Religion Report - 2 August 2006 - The Confessing Movement in the Uniting Church, Census and Religion
		The Confessing Movement there wants to return to what it calls orthodox or classical Christianity, and away from the Liberalism which it says has affected all of the mainline Protestant churches since the 1960s.
		And we actually settled on that word 'confessing' because since the Reformation it's been used to I suppose indicate protest movements who are committed to actually recall the church to the truth of the gospel in a particular time and place.
		Confessing Congregations of course is a very technical term, and it's used by a lot of groups overseas, with many and varied agendas, both in the life of the church and more broadly.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1703764.htm (4149 words)

	Confessing Church - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The immediate occasion for the opposition was the attempt by the Nazis soon after their rise to power to purge the German Evangelical Church of converted Jews and to make the church subservient to the state.
		At the Synod of Barmen (May, 1934) the Confessing Church set up an administration and proclaimed itself the true Protestant Church in Germany.
		The group is governed by representatives from each territorial church (the Council of Brethren) and its doctrines are based on the Barmen declaration and the Reformation creeds.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-confessic1h.html (464 words)

	Confessing Church Movement in the Church of the Brethren - Home P age
		Confessing Church Movement in the Church of the Brethren
		THE MISSION of the Confessing Church Movement in the Church of the Brethren is to affirm the historic and living faith of the Church of Jesus Christ.
		Q: Is the Confessing Church Movement in the Church of the Brethren homophobic or anti-gay?
	www.confessingchurchmovementcob.com (1226 words)

	Cape Town 2001: Towards a confessing, covenanting movement
		Confessing is an expression of the firm belief in God who is the giver of life and the true sovereign of life on earth.
		Confessing is a way of being, thinking and doing that leads to participation in the movement of resistance to injustice and destruction of creation, search for alternatives and life in dignity for all.
		The confessing movement will revisit the choice of texts for the sermons, so that all realms of life are taken into account, particularly the faith response to economic injustice that affects human societies and nature in time of globalization.
	www.warc.ch /pc/capetown/01.html (10493 words)

	News_Article
		The Confessing Movement is merely that segment of the church which feels particularly responsible for representing orthodox faith as expressed in the classic creeds and documents of Christianity, including documents in historic and contemporary Methodism.
		The Confessing Movement seeks to be a responsible advocate of orthodoxy.
		The Confessing Movement is a reforming movement, but it is a movement which believes that reformation does not, cannot, and must not contradict two thousand years of received tradition which has been confined repeatedly by responsible church Councils.
	www.goodnewsmag.org /renewal/harper.htm (1801 words)

	Confessing Movement
		Confessing Movement's Response to the Council of Bishops'
		The Confessing Movement seeks to reclaim and reaffirm the Church's faith in Wesleyan terms and to clarify the doctrines and boundaries of classical Christian teaching.
		Board members of the Confessing Movement are preparing a letter to the Council of Bishops asking for the integrity of the episcopal leaders.
	www.mreform.org /confessing_movement.htm (1090 words)

	Confessing Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Confessing Movement is a neo-Evangelical Movement within several mainline Protestant churches to return those churches to what the members of this Movement see as greater theological orthodoxy.
		Another part of the Background of the Movement is that from the 1950s to the 1980s mainline churches in the US lost many of their members, while conservative churches were growing.
		The confessing Movement points to the shrinkage of the church as evidence of a wrong path taken, and seeks to bring the church back to its original confessions of faith.
	confessing-movement.iqnaut.net (1439 words)

	Evangelical Lutheran Confessing Fellowship - Confessing Movement Links
		The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE) - The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals exists to call the church, amidst our dying culture, to repent of its worldliness, to recover and confess the truth of God's Word as did the Reformers, and to see that truth embodied in doctrine, worship and life.
		The Confessing Movement within the United Methodist Church - The Confessing Movement exists to enable the United Methodist Church to retrieve its classical doctrinal identity, and to live it out as disciples of Jesus Christ.
		It was a struggle to recover the confession of faith and a struggle to remain faithful to it in the preaching and actions of the Church.
	www.elcf.net /confess.html (1660 words)

	Mayfield KY
		The Session's endorsement of the Confessing Church Movement's confessional statement was not reported in the church newsletter until August.
		But the Confessing Church Movement, Presbyterians for Renewal and the Laymen are an "extreme faction." Their "rule or ruin" approach is the real divider.
		The Confessing Church Movement's statement of faith is a pledge of allegiance to fundamentalism.
	www.witherspoonsociety.org /mayfield_ky.htm (1381 words)

	Northminster Presbyterian Church - Confessing Church Movement - NPC Session Resolution
		The Confessing Church Movement and the Renewal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
		The confession of these beliefs is here specifically declared because of a growing theological, spiritual and moral confusion within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
		In acknowledging the current state of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as seen in unprecedented expressions of unbelief within the denomination, the session invites the Northminster family as well as all congregations to a period of renewed reflection and prayerful study of these issues and the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
	www.northminstertucson.org /beliefs/sessres.htm (577 words)

	News from Agape Press
		The Movement started in Pennsylvania on March 21 in response to a decision by the PC(USA)'s General Assembly Council not to require Presbyterian speakers at church-sponsored events to adhere to the denomination's biblical and confessional statements.
		The website states that churches in PC(USA) Confessing Church Movement commit to three "essential doctrines": that Jesus Christ alone is Lord of all and the way of salvation; that the Bible is God's revealed and infallible Word; and that God's people are called to live holy lives.
		The Confessing Church Movement is meeting today at Pennsylvania's Grove City College, where the Presbyterian Lay Committee is sponsoring the annual Faith and Life Conference.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/6/12001a.asp (323 words)

	Allen Gibson: Response to the Confessing Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This simply opens the door for an unfaithful exclusion of people whose lives are torn apart by relationships gone sour, or an endorsement of the "stand by your man" theology that says a woman ought to stick it out with a man even if he is a drunk, a scoundrel, or an abuser.
		I can confess, with the authors of the CM movement, that Jesus is my Lord, my Savior, and is the Son of God.
		I cannot agree with their hermeneutic that applies that confession in ways that close off the very openness of the faith to which Christ leads us, or which applies that faith in ways which close the doors for people who most need to know the miraculous healing power of God.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /trinityga01/confessing/confess_gibson.html (860 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		The movement, which began in Pennsylvania on March 4, has spread rapidly across the country without the aid of organization; leadership or a budget.
		Sessions have adopted a variety of resolutions, but all cite three core beliefs: that Jesus alone is the world's Lord and Savior, that Scripture is the infallible rule of life and faith, and that God's standards for holy life have not been pre-empted by cultural changes.
		As the Confessing Church Movement within the Presbyterian Church (USA) continues to grow, some people still are unsure as to how to get their congregation recognized as a Confessing Church.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?52 (677 words)

	Confessing Movement and United Methodist Clergy
		The Confessing Movement was organized in 1994 and in 1995 issued "A Confessional Statement," which can be seen at http://www.confessingumc.org, calling for other United Methodists to join in confessing Jesus Christ as "The Son, The Savior, The Lord," and vowing to "vigorously challenge and hold accountable those that undermine this confession."
		But such movements become dangerous when they swerve from the positive to the negative, when the confession of an aspect of the faith degenerates into a weapon of exclusion.
		It is clear that the Confessing Movement's concept of "accountability" extends to expelling ministers from The United Methodist Church for failure to embrace the Movement's theology.
	www.gthunt.com /bm2001ht.htm (1625 words)

	Butler County church sparks a national movement
		Roberts, pastor of the 220-member congregation in Jefferson, is widely considered the father of the Confessing Church Movement, a loose confederation of conservative, evangelical congregations in the Presbyterian Church (USA) that has taken a stand against what they believe is a compromise on Biblical essentials by top leaders in their denomination.
		The "confessing churches" -- the concept is patterned after a movement in Nazi Germany during which a handful of churches took a stand against Adolf Hitler -- are taking the stand in response to longstanding complaints that the denomination's national body, known as the General Assembly, has rejected basic tenets of the Christian faith.
		For his part, Pratt believes the Confessing Church Movement is necessary because of the current theological diversity of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
	www.post-gazette.com /neigh_north/20010822nchurch0822p2.asp (1367 words)

	Clear Lake Presbyterian Church
		In reaction, a "Confessing Movement" began to emerge in early 2000, with nearly 300 church sessions having subscribed to it by the opening of the General Assembly.
		He then said, "I want to be known as the confessing moderator" and proceeded to call the assembly commissioners to confess their faith by reciting portions of the church's confessions in each of the plenary sessions.
		While the liberal movement may be blamed for trying too hard to make the gospel relevant-taking its cues from the secular environment-the mega-church movement among conservative Christians focuses on "application," presenting sermons that focus on people's practical lives, relieving them of the need to hear exegetical, expository, theological sermons.
	www.ghg.net /clpc/habererreportongeneralassembly2001.htm (3307 words)

	Confessing Church?
		The session has now voted to withdraw from the Confessing Church movement, but a number of members have said it's too late: their trust in the pastors and the session's leadership has been so badly damaged that they feel compelled to seek new church homes.
		General Assembly consider how to confess the faith in our time, we hope that they will give serious and prayerful consideration to these statements, which remind us that we must be concerned not only about the content of our faith, but about the ways we give testimony to it in all aspects of life.
		Gene TeSelle comments on Mark Achtemeier's praise of the "Confessing Church Movement," noting that Achtemeier's yearning for a strong "teaching office" in the Presbyterian Church is rather foreign to our tradition, and that the early theologians who shaped Christian doctrine favored flexibility and exploration rather than rigidity.
	www.witherspoonsociety.org /confessing_church.htm (1964 words)

	3 hopefuls for top Presbyterian job call on church to unite
		Last year, a Butler County pastor founded the Confessing Church Movement, in which congregations declare that they believe in the lordship of Christ, the authority of Scripture and the call to holiness, especially regarding traditional Christian sexual ethics.
		But, while the movement may prompt healthy discussion, its three affirmations are not an adequate expression of Presbyterian belief, he said.
		Although such a vision is spelled out in its confessions, Book of Order and the Bible, "we are a denomination that has become sharply divided," he said.
	www.post-gazette.com /nation/20020430presby0430p5.asp (671 words)

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		The painting was not well-known until the mid-19th century, when artists of the emerging Symbolist movement began to appreciate it, and associated it with their ideas about feminine mystique.
		Critic Walter Pater in his 1867 essay on Leonardo, expressed this view of the painting by describing the figure in the painting as a kind of mythic embodiment of eternal femininity, who is "older than the rocks among which she sits" and who "has been dead many times and learned the secrets of the grave".
	www.lycos.com /info/symbolist-movement--miscellaneous.html (640 words)

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		It is non-Rastafarians who first engaged the struggle for the liberation of Africans and the modern Rastafarian movement was born out of the struggles of non-Rastafarians.
		Mansions of Rastafari are branches of the Rastafari movement.
		In the late 1990s, many practitioners returned to the Rastafari movement and changed their lyrical focus to "consciousness", a reflection of the spiritual underpinnings of Rastafarianism.
	www.lycos.com /info/rastafari-movement.html (464 words)

	213th General Assembly (2001) News
		LOUISVILLE — General Assembly Moderator Jack Rogers backed away somewhat from his harsh criticism of the Confessing Church Movement today, telling some 325 people at the Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR) breakfast that conversations with supporters of the movement have convinced him that he had misunderstood some of them.
		The Confessing Church Movement, which has enlisted more than 300 churches, promotes three "affirmations": Jesus Christ as the sole means of salvation, the infallibility of the Bible, and marriage as the only appropriate context for sexual relations.
		Rogers also said that he intended to use the creeds and confessions of the church "liturgically in worship at this Assembly." He made good on that promise, leading the first plenary session in a recitation of the Apostles’ Creed.
	www.pcusa.org /ga213/news/ga01112.htm (286 words)

	True Confessions - Mike Herrin
		This movement is an initiative by certain PCUSA members to bring denominational practices back in line with the PCUSA's original, official confession of faith.
		In a nutshell, the Confessing Church Movement seeks to reaffirm the denomination's commitment to three basic truths: Jesus Christ is the only means of salvation; the Bible is the infallible Word of God; and God's people are called to holy living in all aspects of life, including sexuality.
		The movement has naturally engendered some conflict within churches and presbyteries, as pastors and other leaders have sometimes left their positions because those above them in PCUSA leadership have taken opposing stands on both sides of the movement.
	www.rts.edu /quarterly/spring03/herrin.html (1489 words)

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