a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
a style of American poetry that drew on the personal history of the poet
(in Lebanon) a system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.Lebanon's confessional system has both helped preserve a modicum of inter-communal stability and contributed to the breakdown of state and society from 1975 to 1990.
