Sentences with phrase «further schisms»

contagion effect: a few schisms tend to adapt to whatever strains have been present in the environment, but after this a larger number of schisms generates an exponential increase in the likelihood of further schisms.

Thus, during times of instability from economic downturns or other environmental strains, schisms are likely to become producers of further schisms, causing more turbulence in religious organizations than might be predicted otherwise.

The hierarch warned 700 priests present on the occasion that the Council represents a temptation that could lead to further schisms.

Other than furthering the schism between the medical and natural childbirth camps, news that elective induction at 39 weeks prevents adverse outcomes could place a strain on hospitals.

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This schism deals a further blow to bitcoin's hopes of ever becoming a mainstream currency.

Unfortunately, he gives far too much credit to the ELCA churchwide offices, and his claims about the Lutheran Church «Missouri Synod schism are far too simplistic.

This reading of Luther's development suggests that the Western schism, far from being the appropriate historical outcome of principled theological disagreement, was instead a tragic chapter of accidents.

Further population increase is likely to produce more schisms if denominations continue to grow in size.

Thus far, we have examined only a small number of the potential explanatory factors that might account for the occurrence of these schisms.

Elsewhere in Europe, sometimes in considerable numbers, deviants were to be found, Waldensians, Hussites, Lollards, sometimes much harassed, sometimes relatively free; then, in Bohemia, not so far away in the land of the Czechs a whole church was in permanent schism from Rome.

It speaks to a schism at the center of the film: the 1920s are just far more interesting and engaging than the 70s.