Word: schisms
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...adversary in its preachments to confuse many good people. Liberals who confused democracy and Communism during the '303 can take comfort from the fact that Dante, writing The Divine Comedy 700 years after Mohammed's death, still mistakenly placed the prophet among the Christian "sowers of schism...
...title and a double authorship is bound to be somewhat disconnected. "The General and the President and the Future of American Foreign Policy" is disjointed to a certain extent, but all things considered, authors Schlesinger and Rovere have done a competent and interesting historic-reporting job on the great schism between General MacArthur and President Truman...
...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...