Word: schism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very encouraging to note the U.S. Air Force's sponsorship of Dr. Buchman and his Moral Re-Armament tour. Finer work can scarcely be imagined. My own group is making immediate application for like treatment. We have a small but growing schism from M.R.A., based on the doctrine that God is at least a billionaire...
...Convocations of Canterbury and York, traditional arbiters of all doctrinal matters in the Church of England, had just accepted, with little dispute, a report recommending extension of "limited intercommunion" with the Church of South India. The argument was not long in coming, and with it the threat of a schism in the Anglican Church...
...sources claim is grossly exaggerated) might be forced to secede and join the Roman Catholic Church. Reason: "That we may, by continuing to hold to the faith, represent the true Church of England, and that if we seek reconciliation with the Holy See we may end, historically speaking, the schism which took place under Henry VIII...
...Khrushchev's declaration," said Vidali. "We are profoundly grieved." Following the Kremlin's twisting line around every turn was getting to be too much for a simple-minded fellow like Vidali. First it had been his job to deliver Trieste to Yugoslavia; then, after Tito's schism, the party line called for keeping Trieste independent; finally, last year, he was supposed to cooperate in turning Trieste over to the Italians, though a goodly portion of his Trieste Communists are Slovenes. He was also pressed to give up his autonomy and submit to Togliatti (TIME...
...General Court convened there, until a small-pox epidemic drove the austere legislators away. During the Revolution a provincial congress appeared in the church, and Lafayette himself smiled benignly from the Commencement platform in 1824. But the glorious days of the meeting house were about to end. A schism between Unitarians and Trinitarians resulted in the abandonment of the church by both parties...