Sentences with phrase «schismatic groups»

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.

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.

Repeatedly he argued that the introduction of women priests, the new prayer book and other changes in the Episcopal Church had taken it out of the mainstream of Episcopalianism; that in fact the schismatic group, by separating itself from all that «error,» is the faithful remnant.

Not exact matches

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

Or these groups could ultimately represent yet further division in the party, his «broad church» becoming more of a schismatic mess.