Word: schism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best available reports coming out of China indicated that Archbishop Riberi's letter had put a sizable sprag in the Communist wheel. The Independent Catholic movement, which a few months ago had looked like a threatening schism, seemed to be making little headway, with clerical support limited to a handful of obscure priests...
...Descartes' most disastrous bequest, says Van Dusen, was his distinction between thought and matter-a dualism which became in Kant the divorce between reality as revealed by faith, and reality as revealed through the senses. The result today is the frightening schism "between facts and values, between the realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than...
...revolt began to take form in 1532 when Parliament, under the direction of Henry VIII, enacted laws formally renouncing papal supremacy. The movement extended over the three subsequent reigns of Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. There was no formal schism until the Pope finally realized that Elizabeth was determined in her refusal to acknowledge his supremacy. He excommunicated her and absolved her subjects from allegiance to her. The papal adherents began to separate themselves into a distinct community around the year...
...present century, U.S. Protestants have been increasingly unhappy about themselves. Unhappiest of all were the missionaries, whose work spotlighted the absurdity of the Christian schism ("How can you ask a Chinese in North China to become a Southern Baptist?"). One of the greatest of those missionaries was Episcopal Bishop Charles Brent. At a worldwide missionary conference in Edinburgh in 1910, Bishop Brent conceived the idea that, just as division thrives on ignorance, unity might burgeon with more inter-church understanding...
...worst blow to Japanese Communists came from within, when the Cominform publicly blasted Party Strategist Sanzo Nozaka, a Popular Front advocate, for not using more "revolutionary" methods. Japanese Politburo Member Yoshio Shiga accused Nozaka of "Titoism," caused a still unhealed intraparty schism...