Sentences with word «schismatic»

In dramatic fashion, Carroll sweeps into the Baptist march through the centuries numerous dissenting, heretical, and schismatic groups from the second through the sixteenth centuries: the Cathari, the Novationists, the Donatists, the Paulicians, the Acephali, the Paternines, the Petrobrusiani, the Henricians, the Arnoldists, the Albigenses, the Waldensians, the Lollards, the Anabaptists, and on and on.

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

At Corinth there have been schismatic tendencies which have resulted in the deposition of some of the presbyters.

In this view the intervention of the magisterium in the church's intellectual life should be, limited to those occasions when the church is dealing with matters of ultimate loyalty, such as confrontations of church and state, confrontations with other faiths, or internal schismatic movements.

Furthermore, the intellectual climate of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was quite restrictive, with the church struggling against schismatics and heretics to maintain its unity and authority.

Roman Catholic traditionalists cling to a 19th century version of Tridentism and, judging by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and his followers, are more schismatic than the progressives.

His previous show at Carlos / Ishikawa, in 2013, not only cycled through apparel, video, projection, sound, indecorous sculpture and press clippings on paedophilia, but was also schismatic on a case - by - case basis, for instance soundtracking footage of an anti-child abuse filmmaker with manipulatively emotive music.

Schismatic activity would involve conservatives abandoning their own principles.

This charge is puzzling in the extreme, for the practice of even the hard - line conservatives has been anything but schismatic.

In Catholic memory, these reformers were radical, transgressive schismatics condemned by the Church and burned — Wycliffe after his burial and Hus, famously, while very much alive.

Ranier only if you area heretical schismatic Lutheran.

But if I were to become a believer again, it would not be the Church alone that would flame back to life for me; it would be Islam, Buddhism, even our own little schismatic English Church.

Enskeline discovers that schismatics took the planet's one starship a century before and left — and took with them the Shroud of Turin.

Although you find the occasional schismatic or denominationalist flare - up in Quaker history, the general culture of Quakerism (especially these days) avoids policing the boundaries of the church.

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?

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.»

Political rebellion in the streets and schismatic behavior in churches create civil and ecclesiastical disorder, to which the authorities in church and state can react only by more sanctions, more censures, more punishments.»

I hope that Joanna's reporting is true but a serious difficulty arises here: would the mother of the Catholic Church want conversions to the partly heretical, schismatic Orthodox Church, which does not acknowledge the supreme authority of the Pope?

Even though I discovered that the weekly meetings were a prime place for schismatic people to sow their seeds of divisiveness, it was also the perfect place for people who cared about fellowship and community to exercise their love and network with their neighbors in constructive ways.

The remarkable tolerance of the church toward scientists in a time when it persecuted theological heretics and schismatics so viciously is obscured by the misrepresentation of two incidents.

Gregarious yet utterly unrepentant, he speaks directly to the camera, without interference from interviewers or talking heads, expounding on (but never apologizing for) his career and schismatic critical reputation.

Cy Twombly - another artist for whom graffiti has provided an essential source of inspiration - was equally admired by Basquiat for his exquisite handling of line, evinced by the quivering schismatic linearity of the present work.

Even with Constantine's efforts to define the orthodoxy of Christianity in the 4th century, there were so many different beliefs — mostly varying on the nature of the divinity of Christ which ultimately led to lots of persecution in the Byzantine empire to schismatic groups that did not follow the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Greeks.

This is one reason why movements that approximate fundamentalism often attack the established clergy first, and why they manifest both anti-intellectual and schismatic tendencies.

It is typical of some schismatic sects that the more they lapse into heresy, the more ritualistic they become.

For then his literary vision issues either in a misty optimism or a schismatic pessimism.

He survived an assassination attempt - later forgiving his would - be murderer and visiting him in prison - and a stabbing by a deranged priest from a schismatic group.

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.

This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.

This was one of the sources of the Church's intolerance of heretics and schismatics.

A decree of the Council of Florence (1438 - 45) said that «The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and proclaims that none of those who are outside the Catholic church — not only pagans, but Jews also, heretics and schismatics — can have part in eternal life, but will go into eternal fire.»

• being willing to declare that fundamentalism is schismatic and heretical, and being able to show why this is the case when militants attempt to take over or subvert serious religious understandings and communities.

At best, their existence is tragic; at worst, schismatic.

Theological beliefs have certainly served as tests for participation; indeed even for physical survival as heretics and schismatics have been hounded and slain.

· A schismatic shift has occurred in the charismatic group within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.