Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most matters of faith, this inquiry has theological overtones. The historical schism between the traditionalists and the progressives has left deep scars on the vocabulary of educators, so that certain phrases and programs evoke emotions disproportionate to their nebulous meanings...
...intensity of passions on both sides of this schism has been such that those who wish to have a real impact on public education must avoid the controversy completely, couching their suggestions in practical rather than ideological terms. Such is the form of the Conant Report...
...Among past councils were Nicaea (325), which formulated the first Nicene Creed; Constantinople (869), which was the beginning of the final schism between the Eastern and Western churches; Trent (1545-63), which condemned Martin Luther as a heretic and tightened up Catholic practice and doctrine...
This concern is especially deep over the Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union and the Catholic Church in Red China, where efforts to create a separate Communist-dominated church threatens a schism...
...Made a vigorous attack against anti-Catholic activities in China, and in his speech used the rare and uncompromising word schism ("it seems almost to burn our lips") to brand the activities of those collaborating bishops who are consecrating new bishops at the behest of the Communist government. Said Pope John: "If these, our afflicted children, are forced to undergo trials, tribulations and cruel hardships ... let them remember and meditate that such is the price of our invincible Christian faith...