After the Council of Chalcedon there was a very great schism in the East, which continued an hundred years till the reign of Justinian, by whose authority, Pope Vigilius listening at last to terms of peace, an end was put to it.
They further shewed, that most of those who composed the pretended synod were guilty of the schism complained of; that it was publickly notorious they were their declared enemies, and consequently incompetent judges.
He explained himself very frequently and very sharply against the schism of the Protestants.
Charles V, Ferdinand, and Maximilian thought that the schism between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants of the Augsbourg confession was not incurable.
The Reformation has reached so far even where the schism is not complete.
It was then," said Michael de Castelnau, one of the most intelligent and most impartial amongst the chroniclers of the sixteenth century, "that schism and divisions in religious matters began to be mixed up with affairs of state.
I ignore the schism of which you speak, invented by the sacerdotalists to alarm the uneducated.
But let me explain that the schism spoken of in the New Testament is the departing from the truth of the Gospel, and the practices it inculcates; in other words, those who leave Christ's spiritual Church.
It is you and those who side with you who are guilty of the schism of which you speak," said the general, mildly.
At once an eastern schism was set up by the Bishop of the Capital.
The Acacian schism at that time was in full force; the emperor Anastasius full of enmity and deceit against the Pope.
The deposition of St. Eustathius, in 330, cost its capital a schism of nearly a hundred years.
Thus supported by imperial power, Acacius brought about a schism which lasted for thirty-five years.
Italy from the eastern sovereignty, and his arrogation of the power to sever from the Pope, patriarch, a large extent of provinces is viewed no less as a prelude to the great schism between the East and West.
Eustathius was speedily deposed by the Arian faction, even before Athanasius, and during ninety years a perpetual schism preyed upon the dignity of the great eastern see.
The Acacian schism had then divided the East from Rome.
The connection of that schism with the making Zeno sole Roman emperor I have already traced in a former volume.
The charge ofschism is without the least shadow of foundation.
For joining in with these said band and bidding them God speed and thereby bringing schism and division among those churches.
This provides for as many sects as there are truths in the religion of Christ; but God allows no "schism in the body.
Vermillion and Brubaker's signed by about all the church, charging me with insanity whenever I touched on sanctification, also with causing division and schism in the churches and every evil work imaginable!
Send down the fire, O Lord, send fire from heaven, and burn every Gog-schism out of the church!
The schism extended to the most remote counties of England.
Most of the chiefs of the schism treated the Peripatetic philosophy with contempt, and spoke of Aristotle as if Aristotle had been answerable for all the dogmas of Thomas Aquinas.
But, we believe, there is a schism on this subject among the antiquarians.
The shock which the great religious schism of the sixteenth century gave to Europe, was scarcely felt in Spain.
Those monumental arms are never stirred, Till schismor heresy call down Goliah's sword.
The schism thus occasioned, continued long to divide the Christian church.
The schism led the way to the Reformation, for breaking the unity of Christ's church, which was the foundation of it: but the immediate cause of this, which produced the separation of Henry VIII.
The President and his Southern partizans bitterly resented this defeat; and the schism between them, on the one hand, and Douglas and his adherents, on the other, became permanent and irreconcilable.
An extended discussion between Northern and Southern Democratic senators followed the colloquy, which showed that the Freeport doctrine had opened up an irreparable schism between the Northern and Southern wings of the Democratic party.
It may be heresy and schism to institute the most distant comparison between any modern writer and Shakspeare.
In Russia no such schism endangered the sanctity of the ruling forces, possibly because no such prosperity had been attained by either.
Beneath the surface a wide schism was opening up in each Allied country.
Lincoln reminds the Republicans, Bull Moose and Old Guard, that before the schism they had a common history.
But still regarding these dissensions merely in a temporal light, I cannot assign any beneficial effect to the schism of the Hussites, at least in its immediate results, and in the country where it appeared.
Numbers Chapter 16 The schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment.
That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might be mutually careful one for another.
It already threatened to create a schism in the Church; and the agitation, which had commenced before the meeting of the council, was not immediately quieted.
When the Empire was afterwards divided, jealousies increased; the builders could not well understand one another's speech; and the Church at length witnessed the great schism of the Greeks and the Latins.
The agitation caused by the Novatian schism had not yet subsided when another controversy respecting the propriety of rebaptizing those designated heretics created immense excitement.
The leader of the secession was a deacon of the Carthaginian Church, named Felicissimus, and from him the schism which now occurred has received its designation.
The Catholic confederation was supposed to comprehend all the faithful; and it was, no doubt, expected that, not long after its establishment, it would have rung the death knell of schism and sectarianism.
When Gnosticism was spreading so rapidly, and creating so much scandal and confusion, schismuponschism appeared unavoidable.
The schism which occurred about the same time at Rome was of a more formidable and permanent character.
During the first century the Gnostics seem to have been unable to create anything like a schism among those who had embraced Christianity.
Heresy had yet made little impression; schism was scarcely known; and charity, exerting her gentle influence with the brotherhood, found it comparatively easy to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
The magnanimity with which so many of them then encountered martyrdom elicited general admiration; and the divisions caused by the schism of Novatian supplied them with a specious apology for enlarging their jurisdiction.
Such a condemnation of schism he would have held to be in itself in the highest degree schismatical.
When the name and honors of the church of Jerusalem had been restored to Mount Sion, the crimes of heresy and schism were imputed to the obscure remnant of the Nazarenes, which refused to accompany their Latin bishop.
It has been remarked with more ingenuity than truth, that the virgin purity of the church was never violated by schism or heresy before the reign of Trajan or Hadrian, about one hundred years after the death of Christ.
Profiting from the time he was asleep at a distance, he prevailed upon the five hundred Rahans to abandon schism and return to Buddha, the centre of unity, who was then in the Dzetawon monastery in Wethalie.
Dewadat differed from his cousin on some points of discipline; and this difference occasioned the schism that he meditated to establish.
King Louis thereupon proposed an oecumenical council so as to create a schism in the Church, and demanded that it be held in Florentine territory.
John having lost all authority after leaving Rome, a new council was held at Constance, which put an end to the schism in 1417 with the election of Martin V.
They made no scruple of defying ecclesiastical regulations when they could, but in the moral code of that day schism was the deadliest of sins.
It will make schism and rent in Christ's coat, which must be seamless," he says.
In a generation of creed-builders which detested schism he became an individualist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
