Sentences with phrase «century schism»

Does anyone really think they should know in the way that we who are heirs of the sixteenth - century schism know?

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Despite news reports to the contrary, the Orthodox Church has had numerous such councils since either the eighth or eleventh century — depending on whether the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) or the Great Schism (1054, roughly) is the supposed occasion of the last meeting.

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.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a new schism thus developed, the gravity of which we are only now grasping.

In Ferguson, the racial schisms that have plagued the U.S. for centuries have erupted yet again.

In fact, one could argue that some of the Church's most notable movements and schisms have been triggered by overcorrections that take centuries to balance back out.

... Reminds me of what Frederica Matthewes - Green says here about the differences that developed between the eastern churches and western Christianity in the centuries following the great schism.

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.

Centuries later, this dramatic incident was thought to mark the beginning of the schism between the Latin and the Greek churches, a division that still separates Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (Greek, Russian, and other).

The most significant schism was undoubtedly Martin Luther's, but earlier ones had involved the Coptics and Eastern Orthodox; subsequent ones are too numerous to mention, but spectacularly include the Southern versions of the Baptists and Methodists, whose adherents of nearly 2 centuries ago were more persuaded by the Biblical passages endorsing slavery than by the COMPETING Biblical passages commanding love of one's fellow man.

Such an inference anticipates the bitter warning of Tertullian, at the turn of the third century, in his treatise De Baptismo, XVII, 2, that «the striving to become bishop is the mother of all schism.»

On the contrary, Pope John Paul II has suggested that the churches of Africa, for example, provide an important link with an older and undivided Church before the schisms of both 1054 and the sixteenth century.

Descriptively, these results produced rates of schisms that were highest in the 1930s and 1960s, although no decade in the past century was free of schisms.10

He's referring to the historic divisions of Christendom: The body of Christ was cleaved in the Great Schism in 1054, and then the Western half began to suffer severance into thousands of pieces beginning in the sixteenth century.

More than once in the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries progress appeared to be made toward ending the schism between the Armenians and Rome From practically all the Eastern churches groups were won.

It is also worth remembering that these kinds of emotional schisms also existed in Europe for Centuries leading to numerous wars from the Thirty Year War to the more recent two world wars.

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.

He famously feuded with German scientist Gottfried Leibnitz, mainly over who invented calculus first, creating a schism in European mathematics that lasted over a century.

In the late 17th century there was a schism over the issue of how and when to enforce the «meidung» (shunning of non-confirming members) which led to a group breaking away under the leadership of Jakob Ammann, which became known as the Amish.

These questions have plagued and challenged our various psychological and psychiatric professions, for over a century, causing major arguments, divisions and schisms.