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The advocatus diaboli (Latin for Devil's advocate) is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who "argued against the canonization of a candidate to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization".
The Devil's Advocate (marketed as Devil's Advocate) is a 1997 American supernatural horror film directed by Taylor Hackford, written by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, and starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino and Charlize Theron.
The non-academic equivalent of a discussant is a “devil’s advocate,” who highlights the blind spots in a proposal. Sometimes, an entire group is tasked with this job, known as a “red team.”
According to The Boston Globe language columnist Ben Zimmer, the position of Devil's Advocate, which is indicated in the novel to have a role in the selection of the pope, is in fact employed to present arguments against the proposed canonization of a person as a saint (which frequently is the case with former popes). While the background of ...
Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) [1] [2] is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (1987–1995, 2000–2007, 2009) and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000–2021).
“He was known in the class as the devil’s advocate,” one former law school classmate said. “And at a certain point, if someone is always playing the devil’s advocate, you have to kind of ...
The Devil's Advocate is a 1959 novel by Australian author Morris West. [1] It forms part of West's "Vatican" sequence of novels, along with The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963), The Clowns of God (1981), and Lazarus (1990).
West's first best-selling novel was The Devil's Advocate (1959) which he spent two years writing. [10] He sold the film rights for $250,000 and it was adapted into a play and later a film. [7] West later said the novel earned him several million dollars. [8] He wrote another "Michael East" novel, The Naked Country (1960), which was filmed in ...