Word: schism
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...husbands and sons have special princely privileges. Unfettered by any constitution or laws determining the royal succession, the members decide who will be the country's King. The princes showed extraordinary prescience a few weeks ago by settling on the succession to Faisal and thereby averting a family schism following the King's death...
...denominations (2.8 million U.S. members, 300,000 more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
Resentments between traditionalists and those who advocate freer scriptural interpretation helped to cause schism a year ago among Southern Presbyterians in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is increasingly beset by similar quarrels. Last March, Bishop James Rausch, a progressive who is general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, publicly censured several conservative columnists who had questioned the orthodoxy of some current U.S. Catholic biblical scholarship...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam and Eve story and the entire New Testament, including...
With his new one-year contract, Robinson will be guiding a team of limited talent in a town traditionally known as the "graveyard of managers." His job will not be made any easier by a barely concealed black-white schism on this year's team. But Star Pitcher Gaylord Perry, who had earlier threatened to leave the club if Robinson took over, joined with other players to say that they would give their new skipper a chance...