Epistolary means " in the form of a letter or letters ".

With his brother, Charles Yorke, he was one of the chief contributors to Athenian Letters ; or the Epistolary Correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War ( 4 vols., London, 1741 ), a work that for many years had a considerable vogue and went through several editions.

Epistolary novels, which were very common in the early years of the novel, generally consist of a series of letters written by different characters, and necessarily switching when the writer changes ; the classic books Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dracula by Abraham " Bram " Stoker and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde take this approach.

* BBC Radio 4's " 15 March 2007 edition of ' In Our Times " edition on Epistolary Literature.

On the one hand he made use of a ` romanticized history of Alexander of a highly rhetorical type depending on the Cleitarchus tradition, and with this he amalgamated a collection of imaginary letters derived from an Epistolary Romance of Alexander written in the first century B. C.

* Epistolary songs include The Beatles ' " P. S.

"" Ye Knew Your Duty, But Ye Did It Not ": The Epistolary Rhetoric of Sarah Grimké.

* Barbara M. Benedict, " The Margins of Sentiment: Nature, Letter, and Law in Frances Brooke's Epistolary Novels ," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 23, no.

* Pangle, Thomas L. " The Epistolary Dialogue Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin ".

* J. Nichols, Epistolary Correspondence, etc.

In 1791, he sent his mother a copy of a farce that he had written named The Epistolary Intrigue.

" Epistolary Warfare " in Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature.

Other books used in the celebration of Mass included the Graduale ( texts mainly from the Psalms, with musical notes added ), the Evangeliarium or Gospel Book, and the Epistolary with texts from other parts of the New Testament, mainly the Epistles ( letters ) of Saint Paul.

The Lennox of Auld, an Epistolary Review of “ The Lennox ” by William Fraser was published posthumously in 1880, edited by his son Francis.

These included the Gradual ( texts mainly from the Psalms, with musical notes added ), the Evangelary or Gospel Book, the Epistolary with texts from other parts of the New Testament, mainly the Epistles ( letters ) of Saint Paul, and the Sacramentary with the prayers that the priest himself said.

* Martha J. Koehler, " Epistolary Closure and Triangular Return in Richardson's ' Clarissa '," Journal of Narrative Technique 24 ( Fall 1994 ): 153 – 72.

* McKillop, A. D. " Epistolary Technique in Richardson's Novels ", in Samuel Richardson ; a collection of critical essays edited by John J Carroll, 147 – 8.

In Christianity, the term historicism refers to the confessional Protestant form of prophetical interpretation which holds that the fulfillment of biblical prophecy has taken place throughout history and continues to take place today ; as opposed to other methods which limit the time-frame of prophecy-fulfillment to the past or to the future.

During the time of the writing of the two manuscripts ( sermons on sin and repentance, a confessional form ), Bishop Abraham was active ( from 957 to 994 ) in Freising.

The Heidelberg Catechism is a Protestant confessional document taking the form of a series of questions and answers, for use in teaching Reformed Christian doctrine.

His poetry, ranging from a tendency to surrealist folk poetry, but characterized by esthetic rigor with a confessional poems averse and marked by the use of rhymes, inaugurated a new form of poetry in Brazil.

Many parties are little more than ad-hoc electoral lists, formed by negotiation among influential local figures representing the various confessional communities ; these lists usually function only for the purpose of the election, and do not form identifiable groupings in the parliament subsequently.

) justified mental reservation, a form of deception which does not involve outright lying, in specific circumstances including when such an action is necessary to protect confidentiality under the seal of the confessional.

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, was instrumental in determining the form Anglicanism was to take, not by writing confessional statements or significant theological treaties, but through his authoring of the Book of Common Prayer in 1549 and 1552.

Isaac's ex-wife Jill ( Meryl Streep ) is writing a confessional book about their marriage.

However, the Book of Concord is a confessional document ( stating orthodox belief ) rather than a book of ecclesiastical rules or discipline, like canon law.

In March 2005, the Academy of American Poets named Life Studies one of their Groundbreaking Books of the 20th century, stating that it had " a profound impact ," particularly over the confessional poetry movement which the book helped launch.

The book alternates between a confessional narrative and an industry commentary, providing insightful and humorous anecdotes on the cooking trade.

There are different interpretations of the significance of the Eucharist, but according to the Encyclopædia Britannica " there is more of a consensus among Christians about the meaning of the Eucharist than would appear from the confessional debates over the sacramental presence, the effects of the Eucharist, and the proper auspices under which it may be celebrated.

* Article 20 of the Audiovisual Media Act No. 71 of 2002 states: “ The licensee shall not broadcast or rebroadcast any material that is likely to provoke confessional and interethnic strife, to undermine national unity or to instigate terrorism, racism or religious intolerance or to damage domestic relations in the Kingdom .”

The Parliament is elected by adult suffrage ( majority age for election is 21 ) based on a system of majority or " winner-take-all " for the various confessional groups.

Nonetheless, they constitute an important minority whose naturalization / settlement in Lebanon is vigorously opposed by most Lebanese, who see them as a threat to Lebanon's delicate confessional balance.

Nichols explained that the communique " is not directly concerned with child abuse at all, but with the misuse of the confessional.

Accordingly Yom Kippur is unique for the confessional, or Vidui, that is part of the prayer services.

In keeping with the requirement to repent on Yom Kippur, Jews recite the full Vidui a total of 10 times: 2 times during Mincha on Yom Kippur eve, and on Yom Kippur itself during Ma ' ariv ( 2 times ), Shacharit ( 2 times ), Musaf ( 2 times ), and Mincha ( 2 times ); at Ne ’ eilah, only the short confessional is said.

The Yom Kippur confessional consists of two parts: a short confession beginning with the word Ashamnu ( אשמנו, " we have sinned "), which is a series of words describing sin arranged according to the aleph-bet, and a long confession, beginning with the words Al Cheyt ( על חטא, " for the sin "), which is a set of 26 double acrostics, also arranged according to the aleph-bet, enumerating a range of sins.

* June 25 – The Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents, is published.

* May 28 – The Bergen Book, better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings, is published.

However, the vote of each tribe member is revealed during the credits and the ousted player's confessional.

A new liberal / confessional cabinet is formed.

His Confessions is perhaps the first true autobiography, and it gave rise to the genre of confessional literature which is now more popular than ever.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.

Maintaining its position as a confessional church body emphasizing the importance of full agreement in the teachings of the Bible, the LCMS is not associated with ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals, the World Council of Churches or the Lutheran World Federation.

It is, however, a member of the International Lutheran Council, made up of over 30 Lutheran churches worldwide that support the confessional doctrines of the Bible and the Book of Concord.

The Retraction is similarly to be understood as Chaucer's sincere questioning of his own " entente ," the key action required of the penitent in the confessional.

" Robert Christgau wrote that " As a rule, American songwriting is banal, prolix, and virtually solipsistic when it wants to be honest, merely banal when it doesn't ", but found Newman's " truisms — always concise, never confessional —" to be " his own.