In John Heywood's Play Called the Four PP ( 1530s ), the Pardoner, a Renaissance update of Chaucer's Pardoner, offers his companions the opportunity to kiss " a slipper / Of one of the Seven Sleepers ," but the relic is presented as absurdly as the Pardoner's other offerings, which include " the great-toe of the Trinity " and " a buttock-bone of Pentecost.

" The Pardoner's Tale " () is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The relationship between tellers and tale is particularly significant in " The Pardoner's Tale.

" This is true of many of the tales and their tellers, but the Pardoner's motives are woven even more tightly into his tale than most.

Though the Pardoner preaches against greed, the irony of the character is based in the Pardoner's hypocritical actions.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated in an interview that her short story " The Tale of the Three Brothers " from The Tales of Beedle the Bard is loosely based on " The Pardoner's Tale ".

According to Rowling, the story about how these objects came into existence is based upon Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale.

The " Prioress ' Tale " may approximate the greedy exploitation of spirituality embodied by The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale insofar as it is indebted to tales of martyrdom circulated for worldly profit.

The story of The Three Living and the Three Dead, to which the film is indebted, was very common in the Middle Ages, and formed the basis for many texts and images, including the Dance of Death, and Geoffrey Chaucer's ' Pardoner's Tale '.

" The Pardoner's Tale " in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a longer example of an exemplum.

" The Pardoner's Tale ", a story from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer may contain a reference to the Wandering Jew.

“ The pardoner conspires to set himself up as a moveable shrine endowed with relics unsurpassed by those of anyone else in England .” Yet, of course, the relics are all fakes, creating a suggestion of both the Pardoner's impotence and his spiritual ill-worth.

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As if to reinforce the high moral tone of the inaugural performance, the Dramat Executive Committee added Wescott's own adaptation of Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale.

This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.

This is simply a confession of intellectual sterility spruced up to look virtuous.

By his own confession, Maris is an angry young man.

This had the effect of inculcating the principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (" the law of prayer is the law of belief ") as the foundation of Anglican identity and confession.

The confession of faith of Westminster is one of many evangelical creeds that give articles of faith based on sola scriptura rather than on the living experience of the Church.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

For this reason, it is normally required that one go to confession before receiving Unction.

In an adversarial system, there is no more controversy and the case proceeds to sentencing ; though in many jurisdictions the defendant must have allocution of her or his crime, a false confession will not be accepted even in common law courts.

By contrast, in an inquisitiorial system, the fact that the defendant has confessed is merely one more fact that is entered into evidence, and a confession by the defendant does not remove the requirement that the prosecution present a full case.

But the right baptism of Christ, which is preceded by teaching and oral confession of faith, I teach, and say that infant baptism is a robbery of the right baptism of Christ ...

" Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is.

The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever ( ch. 63: 7 – 64: 11 ); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool ( Isaiah 66: 1 – 2 ); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community ; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism ; and distinctions between the " righteous " and the " sinners ", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.

Chapters 1: 1-2: 5 are thus a confession of failure ; chapters 2: 6-3: 6 are a major summary and reflection from the Deuteronomists, setting out the over all formula which the stories in the main text will follow: Israel " does evil in the eyes of Yahweh ;" the people are given into the hands of their enemies and cry out to Yahweh ; Yahweh raises up a leader ; the " spirit of Yahweh " comes upon the leader, the enemy is defeated, and peace is regained.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

When the statement of faith is longer and polemical, as well as didactic, it is not called a creed but a confession of faith.

The celebration of the Mass in Lutheran churches follows a similar pattern to other traditions, starting with public confession ( Confiteor ) by all and a Declaration of Grace said by the priest or pastor.

The South German Ordnung of approximately the same date is similar to that of the Schleitheim Confession but contain many more Biblical references supporting the confession.,

Recently, several electronic applications have been introduced that can aid a penitent in making a good confession, similar to printed works known as " examinations of conscience ".

The first form of confession and absolution is done at the Divine Service with the assembled congregation ( similar to the Anglican tradition ).

Here, the entire congregation pauses for a moment of silent confession, recites the confiteor, and receives God's forgiveness through the pastor as he says the following ( or similar ): " Upon this your confession and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Christie had used a similar procedure in both his previous murders of Fuerst and Eady according to his confession in 1953.

The title of this section is :「 清水寺に来れる女の懺悔 」( kiyomizu-dera ni kitareru onna no zange, translated in Giles as " The Confession of the Woman Visitor to Kiyomizudera Temple ") The word 懺悔 ( zange ) is often translated as " confession ", but the word also has heavy religious connotations, similar to " repentance " or " penitence ".

The original 1644 Baptist Confession, while similar in theology, was nowhere near as expansive as these two English Confessions, and it became clear that another Baptist confession needed to be written.

In this statement the assembled prelates, while declaring their confession in " One God, the Father Almighty, and in His only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, generated from Him before the ages ," recommended the disuse of the terms ousia ( essence or substance ), homoousion ( identical in essence, or substance ), and homoiousion ( similar in essence, or substance ), " by which the minds of many are perturbed "; and they held that there " ought to be no mention of any of them at all, nor any exposition of them in the Church, and for this reason and for this consideration that there is nothing written about them in divine Scripture and that they are above men's knowledge and above men's understanding " ( Athan., De Syn., xxviii ; Soz., ii, xxx ; Hil., De Syn., xi ).

The Holy Church of Gwynedd is a Christian faith similar to the Roman Catholic Church, including the celebration of Mass, usually in Latin, and the common use of confession and penance.

The need to dissolve that failed attempt at interdenominationalism, which had already taken place among the Presbyterians, prompted the first national gathering of Congregationalists since the 1648 synod that produced the Cambridge Platform, a confession of faith similar to the Presbyterians ' Westminster Confession, at Boston in 1865.

The first form of confession and absolution is done at the Divine Service with the assembled congregation ( similar to the Anglican tradition ).

Here, the entire congregation pauses for a moment of silent confession, recites the confiteor, and receives God's forgiveness through the pastor as he says the following ( or similar ): " Upon this your confession and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.