| An eschatological vision of the world may offer an alternative way out of the impasse of provincialism and confessionalism. |
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| It is self-generating in order to avert stagnation and constitutes a unifying force that transcends confessionalism. |
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| As such, there was little to outweigh the influences of confessionalism, community allegiance and financial resources. |
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| It is a long-term task, in view of the fact that confessionalism has deep structural roots, which go back to dhimmi-status and the millet system. |
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| To foster a unity in diversity, a rigid or exaggerated confessionalism must give way to encouraging communities to cooperate among themselves, coordinate pastoral activities and manifest spiritual emulation and not rivalry. |
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| After so many decades of ecumenical dialogue and life together, there is a paradoxical resurgence of confessionalism today, undoubtedly linked to the fragmentation process. |
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| Now, the conflict between the Arabs using sectarianism and confessionalism as a pretext. |
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| This mosaic of peoples and politics has led the Lebanese to historically seek a balance of power through a political arrangement known as confessionalism. |
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| More important in the long run, confessionalism promoted a social drive, also long under way, toward the inculcation of discipline and order in public and private as well as in religious and civic affairs. |
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| Observers blamed the delay on the entrenched confessionalism in Iraqi politics, which remains a powerful force despite the avowedly cross-sectarian nature of the two major coalitions in the March election. |
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| While the Ṭāʾif Accord had called for a gradual end to confessionalism within the country, the reality in post-civil war Lebanon tended toward an entrenchment and strengthening of sectarian allegiances. |
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| It would mean transforming the current system of political confessionalism, quite in accordance with the Taif Agreement and also with the Constitution. |
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| However, there has arisen a spectrum of approaches to confessionalism. |
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| However, with the rise of confessionalism, some Baptists have denied the Zwinglian doctrine of mere memorialism and have taken up a Reformed view of Communion. |
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| Confessionalism is a system of consociational government which distributes political and institutional power proportionally among religious subcommunities. |
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