Sentences with phrase «as schism»

Skelos ceded power over the Senate's majority conference a week after his arrest to fellow Long Island Republican Sen. John Flanagan As was the case with Silver and his Democrats, GOP support for Skelos eroded quickly as a schism between upstate and downstate conference members began to show.

«Born of a bent for mathematical musing, Organismic philosophy comes off quite confusing Considering what must be seen as the schism Of little bio in the logos of its organism.»

Third, as schism became inevitable, only a minority of pastors and congregations were willing to leave the mother denomination.

Not exact matches

The schism between artful persuasion and the empirical method is as old as advertising — but it has never been as confrontational as it is now (or made a marketer's life so miserable).

As views harden among the traditionalists, a schism has occurred.

A schism has developed between the team in charge of the original codebase for Bitcoin, known as Core, and a rival faction pushing its own version of that open source code with a block size increase added in, known as Classic.

They would dearly love not to address the issues at all, to muddle through as best they can, and to stay clear of all talk of division and schism.

Typically, Martin Luther is called on as the prime witness to this contention: did not the Reformation schism begin with his theological «breakthrough,» his principled repudiation of the «catholic» form of Christianity as a whole; careful examination of what Luther actually wrote and said, however, suggests very different conclusions that may surprise Protestants and Roman Catholics alike.

A final implication of this way of reading Luther is the most important and the most troubling: the sixteenth - century Protestant / Catholic schism is construed as the logical, inevitable, and necessary public outcome of Luther's theological development.

I will never forget the horror when I realized as an adult convert during the schism in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that, if it weren't for the protection of the civil government, there were people in that Church who would probably kill me for what I believed.

Thanks jellyfishdude — I am fully educated on the schism and consider my orthodox brothers the same as me but I do not appreciate how some of the orthodox churches deny some sacraments in western christianity.

Moreover, in the Church the threatening schisms are often related to identity politics: race, colonial history and cultural issues such as gay marriage and the role of women.

One can recognize that there was a schism, and decide that though there was to be no one ruler of the church, that due to a number of circumstances, the Bishop of Rome, that was supposed to be «first amongst equals» as an honour, and was recognized as a mediator between churches, then became self - delclared as the leader of the church.

Actually the schism as it's called between the orthodox church and catholic church happened in 1054AD.

Such theological differences need not destroy the unity of faith and confession, they need not be a cause for schism, and today neither side ought to emphasize them to such an extent as still to justify the separation of the Churches.

Signs of impending schism appeared as early as 305, when the persecution was in full force, but there was no formal break until the persecution ended.

Second, as the church was troubled by heresy and schism from within and by the State from without, uniformity of belief and practice became a necessity.

The results of this schism are with us still; it is not uncommon to find Baptist and «Christian» churches still facing one another across town squares and village lanes throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, just as New England Congregationalists divided into Old Lights and New Lights in the eighteenth century.

His introduction of causal efficacy as a mode of perception is designed to overcome this schism, what he refers to as the «bifurcation of nature» introduced into philosophy by the dualism of Descartes and Locke.

Nevertheless, Whitehead is understandably reluctant to endorse the phenomenalist implications of his first version, since it seems to create a schism between the philosophic account of sign interpretation given in terms of correlations between experiences and the world as described by physics and the other sciences.

Is there a point where breaking communion is appropriate (schism, I think, was not the correct word as you pointed out it is not even possible unless every misogynist denomination (I refuse to use the long C word) splits in two), and who has the authority to make that call?

The shallow novelty, the low - cost nihilism, and the vague and sentimental spiritual pretensions of so much contemporary art — in every medium — are the legacy of this schism, as well as the cynicism that pervades the arts world.

Persian Asia was beyond western control not by schism, but as a matter of patriarchal privilege.

This was not an act of schism as some Roman Catholics have interpreted it.

As had already happened among the Presbyterians (1837) and Methodists (1844), the weight of slavery tipped the scales towards regional schism, foreshadowing the coming national crisis.

This is indeed a scandal, and it is right that faithful Catholics resist it, as many have — though without engaging in acts that provoke schism and excommunication.

As we saw in the last chapter, the Babylonian Captivity and the Papal schism which brought the Church and its faith into such grave discredit were largely due to the emergence of the French monarchy and to the discontent of rival incipient nationalisms and monarchies with French control.

As it happens, when we ask about God's role in violence, later revelation in Scripture makes it pretty clear that God's only activity was to rescue us from our own violence, redeem us from the consequences of violence, and reconcile us to Himself and to one another from the schisms caused by violence.

[25] With these two strands intertwining in the existential experience of Ignatius, it is possible to see how the emergence of theological affirmations about Christ emerge here in a context of existential imperatives, like the reality of schism, division, and breakage of unity, as well as the approach of the gift of death.

Christians should agree that there exists a perfect orthodoxy in the mind of God; however, the proliferation of schisms, disagreements, and divisions throughout church history points to the fact that we as sinful and fallible humans are imperfect at agreeing precisely on that orthodoxy.

For present purposes, it will suffice to say that one standard way of defining sects, and of distinguishing them from churches and cults, is to focus on their origins: sects arise as splinter groups through schisms from churches or other sects, whereas cults generally arise independently as autonomous organizations.

Before the Great Schism in 1054 the Eastern Churches defined the Pope as «First among equals.»

Wycliff's acceptance of the scriptures as the rule of life finds expression in nearly all his works but especially in his treatise De Veritate Sacrae Scriptures (on the truth of the Holy Scriptures) published in 1378, the year in which the papacy ranked to its lowest ebb, with the «Great schism», when a new pope was elected in Rome in opposition to the pope of Avignon.

The schism will be so large as to leave the ELCA crippled financially and administratively, occupied with budget and staff cuts.

Our magisterium may finally have to realize that risking open schism may be necessary to retain even minimal credibility as teachers.

Typically, Martin Luther is called on as the prime witness to this contention: did not the Reformation schism....

One can not deny the widespread outbreak of schism, disagreement, and infighting within the various churches as a consequence of Revivalism.

As Robert Law puts it: «Gnosticism traces into the eternal the schism of which we are conscious in the world of experience, and posits two independent arid antagonistic principles of existence from which, severally, come all the good and all the evil that exist.»

During the past twenty years America's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has undergone a major upheaval and reorientation, a time of turmoil and schism known to many of its participants simply as The Controversy.

Despite this schism in public betting, Arizona is still listed at -2.5 as oddsmakers are reticent to move to the key number of 3.

Right again that tokenism can go «disastrously wrong as different religions, sects, and schisms within the same ethnic communities emerge over an election campaign».

Patrick Diamond assesses the Labour leader's performance as an opposition leader according to five criteria, and concludes the risk of a Labour schism between «principles» and «power» — of the kind that rivened the party in the early 1980s — is considerable.

The new comments highlight a growing schism between Cabinet secretaries, with attorney general Dominic Grieve, Mr Clarke and Liberal Democrats squaring up against right - wingers such as Ms May and defence secretary Liam Fox.

In sharp contrast, the smaller state Republican party convenes Tuesday with schisms on display, deciding for example if wild - card party - switcher Steve Levy advances another step for governor, or if Rick Lazio locks up the nomination as once presumed, or if a sudden prospect named Myers Mermel mounts a major miracle.

However, the schism in the party showed no sign of closing as one of Clegg's predecessors, Lord Steel, called for Rennard's suspension to be lifted.

That's looking increasingly likely now that there's tentative agreement to end the bitter schism in the Senate between mainline Democrats and the breakaway faction known as the Independent Democrats.

As we go into 2012, the fatal schism in the party will have properly opened up.

The I.D.C. schism had infuriated and frustrated many Democrats, as well as Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Mr. Cuomo in a Democratic primary.

As one senior Labour figure declared, a Lib - Lab agreement would be «the ultimate fulfilment of the New Labour mission»: Tony Blair's abortive project to overcome the century - old Labour - Liberal schism under a reformed electoral system.

To keep people coming back, he also prescribes «some myths that break the laws of physics, but not too much», and no extreme mysticism, as it tends to lead to schisms.