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confessionalizationnoun
The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.
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Confessionalization
Confessionalization is a recent concept employed by Reformation historians to describe the parallel processes of "confession-building" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg and the Thirty Years' War. During this time prior to the Thirty Years' War, there was a nominal peace between the Protestant and Catholic confessions as both competed to establish their faith more firmly with the population of their respective area. This confession-building occurred through "social-disciplining," as there was a stricter enforcement by the churches of their particular rules for all aspects of life in both Protestant and Catholic areas. This had the consequence of creating distinctive confessional identities. Calvin's Geneva is a model case for the confessional era because of its high degree of social control, unity and homogeneity under one expression of a reformed Christian faith. The Genevan model was informed by an interpretation of Erasmus' humanism. The reformation had shown that it was impossible to make all of Christianity to conform to one faith and thus called an end to the Corpus Christianum. The new motto was to establish the perfect Christian community, in the belief that only one's own theology was the correct one.
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The numerical value of confessionalization in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
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The numerical value of confessionalization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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