Sentences with phrase «schismatic movements»

Schismatic movements usually occur over one or more points of doctrine which becomes a prominent belief that often overshadows what should be core beliefs.

Not exact matches

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.

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