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The 25 pages that link to A Confession, each with the reason it gives.

• Augustine of HippoBroader topic: This work gives Augustine’s most direct account of the experiences behind his thought.

• Leo TolstoyBroader topic: Tolstoy describes the spiritual crisis that transformed his writing and public commitments.

• Eyewitness testimonyCompared with: A confession is a statement by an accused person, not an observer's account.

• SinRelated: Confession makes recognition of sin part of a practice of seeking forgiveness.

• Spiritual directionCompared with: Confession may involve absolution; spiritual direction is not itself a sacrament or rite.

• InterrogationBroader topic: Obtaining an admission is one possible goal, but a confession may be false.

• LentRelated: Confession gives Lent’s penitential emphasis a concrete form in many churches.

• The CrucibleRelated: The court rewards confessions, turning admission into a tool for validating its accusations.

• The History of SexualityRelated: Foucault presents confession as a major technique for producing truths about sex.

• PriestRelated: In some traditions, priests hear confessions and perform rites of reconciliation.

• The FallRelated: Clamence confesses, but converts exposure of his faults into a way to condemn others.

• The Tell-Tale HeartRelated: The story culminates in the narrator revealing the body’s location to the officers.

• Johann TetzelCompared with: An indulgence did not itself grant absolution, despite popular confusion about its effects.

• PenanceRelated: Confession can identify the sin that penitential acts address.

• The Brothers KaramazovRelated: Confessions complicate the gap between what happened and what can be proved.

• María ZambranoRelated: Zambrano treated confession as a way of making lived truth communicable.

• Anthony BluntRelated: Blunt admitted his espionage to British authorities in 1964, but the admission remained secret.

• Sergei ParajanovBroader topic: The surviving fragments connect his visual imagination to memories of his own life.

• Darkness at NoonRelated: Rubashov’s decision to confess makes the novel’s central conflict between truth and political strategy concrete.

• Kang ShengRelated: Forced or politically engineered confessions could turn suspicion into purported evidence.

• RemorseRelated: Acknowledging an act can give remorse public form and create obligations to those harmed.

• Venial sinRelated: Confession can remit venial sins, though Catholic teaching does not require it for each one.

• Gregory of NarekRelated: The speaker repeatedly exposes human sinfulness as part of the prayer’s appeal for mercy.

• Matthew HopkinsRelated: Confessions, often extracted under coercive conditions, helped turn Hopkins’s suspicions into prosecutions.

• Gilles de RaisRelated: His confession was a pivotal part of the 1440 proceedings, though its circumstances remain contested.