Word: schisms
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...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...
Silveira, in making his motion, recalled the intensive campaigning which took place two years ago and which, he said, caused a serious schism in the council for the entire year...
Monree E. Deutsch, vice president and provost emeritus of the University of California, charged yesterday in a letter to the New York Times that "Communism in not the issue" in the Regents-faculty schism over the "loyalty oath" controversy at that institution...
...terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...