| Poverty and social degradation breed discontent in certain population groups especially in the ethnically and confessionally patchy states. |
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| The failure to implement policies intended to undermine confessionally based political power have curtailed that hope. |
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| These embarrassingly partisan perspectives have changed in recent decades, and a less confessionally oriented picture of Luther has emerged. |
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| It is that it is a bad idea, especially in a confessionally diverse society, to bring religion and state too close together. |
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| Luther's theology of two kingdoms creates a dilemma for those theologically and confessionally orthodox Lutherans who wish to oppose women's ordination. |
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| We should say that confessionally, because on many of these issues we have had problems in our past. |
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| Lutheran theology is confessionally rooted and ecumenically engaged. |
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| The fantastic bloodletting of the civil war, when thousands of Iraqis were dying a month, turned neighborhoods that for centuries had harbored both Sunni and Shiite Muslims into confessionally pure enclaves. |
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| Amy confirms Kliman's hunch, but Nathan rejects the fact and, more important, the premise of the fact, which is that fiction can be read confessionally. |
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| The WCC brings together a regionally and confessionally diverse group of young people to participate in leadership training seminars, and to serve at WCC governing body meetings. |
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| The stewards' programme includes an ecumenical leadership training seminar, and brings together a regionally and confessionally diverse group of young people for ecumenical formation and leadership development. |
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| They hope that the ending of their previous separation will influence churches in Europe and elsewhere who are related to them confessionally. They are ready to examine with them the possibilities of wider church fellowship. |
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| Koslofsky speculates that it was driven by the need to find new sources of authority in a confessionally fragmented age. |
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| Nine car bombs hit civilian targets in the majority-Shiite or confessionally mixed neighborhoods of the capital, killing 37 people. |
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| At the same time, this is by no means a confessionally hesitant text. |
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| The Houthi militia has clashed repeatedly with tribes as they have advanced into confessionally mixed areas of central Yemen since overrunning the capital last September. |
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| Her debut book Confessionally Yours has just hit the market. |
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