Word: confessionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Far from Ecumenism. Most Evangelicals are highly suspicious of modern doctrinal statements by mainstream churches-such as the United Presbyterians' proposed "Confession of 1967," which, they claim, reduces the Bible to a vehicle of God's Word rather than the Word itself. They are equally wary of ecumenism...
Acting under its broad new confession doctrine (People v. Dorado), the California Supreme Court has voided Martinez's confession on the ground that the police failed to warn him of his rights to silence and to counsel as soon as they had other solid evidence against him-his fingerprints...
Brainwiping. In 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a vote of 5 to 4 that federal juries could be trusted to follow judges' instructions and compartmentalize the evidence against codefendants, because otherwise "the jury system does not make sense." But in that decision (Delli Paoli v. U.S.), the...
> Confessions are permissible in joint trials if all incriminating references to other defendants are "effectively deleted" from the confession in question. In Aranda's case, it would have sufficed merely to delete his name from Martinez's confession because the confession contained no other clue to his identity...
Maugham cites his own example. He once met a dull couple at a dull dinner. The man had been a civil servant in Asia, and the only memorable thing about him was that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it...