Sentences with phrase «as schismatic»

If the Russian government tries to use the coercive power of law to unite them under the Moscow Patriarchate, will the Russian Orthodox Church vigorously protest and insist on the right of Kyivan Patriarchate parishes to exist, even though it regards them as schismatic?

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Heretics and schismatics were those who thought of themselves as Christian but did not agree with the Holy Roman Church.

But he warned in a recent book preface that «schismatic temptations and dogmatic confusion» were sown as a result of the debate over the document and said such confusion was «dangerous for the unity of the Church.»

Mr. Benne must have neglected his lessons in church history, as he seems unaware that the catholic tradition of ecclesiology, which is quite enthusiastic about ecclesial life, has always resisted the elitism prominent in schismatic renderings of the Church.

Threats just as serious to the vitality of Christendom came from within, from a succession of schismatic and heretical movements.

As for those who sunder their religion and become schismatics, no concern at all hast thou with them.

The detail of the argument was not - at issue — it was enough that Luther was challenging authority, Popes and Councils alike, and defending Huss, a heretic known in the popular mind as one who said the laity should receive the wine at communion (not in fact an heretical claim), and whose followers had set up the still flourishing schismatic Church in Bohemia.

So please refer to us as «schismatics» rather than deniers, which has obviously uncomfortable connotations.

Instead, the Illinois Supreme Court would sanction this circumvention of the tribunals set up to resolve internal church disputes and has ordered the Mother Church to reinstate as Bishop one who espoused views regarded by the church hierarchy to be schismatic and which the proper church tribunals have already determined merit severe sanctions.