Word: schism
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Christian Science Schism...
...paradoxically, not the 100,000-member Communist Party, whose pro-Peking leaders prefer to talk trade with the Chinese. To make their position clear, Japan's 57-man Central Committee last week voted overwhelmingly to expel two leading party members for taking Russia's side in the schism...
Abrogating Laws. Last week British Judaism was split by its worst schism ever-over whether it should adapt to modern life or reject it for the sake of Israel's carefully nourished beliefs. Cause of the schism is the modern-minded theological outlook of Dr. Louis Jacobs, 43, a Biblical scholar who between 1954 and 1960 was rabbi of the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater, a traditional center of worship for many Anglo-Jewish families. Although he is Orthodox in practice, Jacobs has long shocked his bearded rabbinical colleagues in the Orthodox-controlled United Synagogue, Britain...
...Reluctant Caboose. Kennedy agrees that "the church has many weaknesses," but he also believes that the church has many strengths, and among them is the rules-laden organization that so many younger ministers complain about. To Kennedy, the right use of organization can foster successful evolution instead of schism-creating revolution. Methodism, he says, is a "strange combination of discipline and freedom-and it is the discipline that makes the freedom possible." Wesley's instinct for order was wise, he argues, "because nobody stands alone. We're a connectional church-and you just...
Keeping the Mass. The Western Rite is an Orthodox attempt to restore the cultural balance of East and West that existed in their church before Rome -as the East believes - fell away into schism in 1054. In doctrine, Western Orthodox believers follow the bearded patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch and Moscow, but their way of worship is the Mass rather than the lengthy Divine Liturgies of the East. The Western Rite missal has been purged of Roman "heresies," such as supererogation, the belief that man can acquire grace through the merits of saints as well as through Christ's redemption...