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SCHISM , a See also:division, especially used of a formal separation from a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church or religious See also:body, a See also:sect, or church formed by such separation. The See also:Greek vxivµa, a cleft, split, from vA"eev, to cleave, is used in the New Testament of an actual See also:rent in a garment (Matt. ix. 16) and also several times of divisions or See also:differences of See also:opinion as to the teaching and See also:message of See also:Christ (See also:John vii. 43) or of dissension in the church (r See also:Cor. xi. 18) In the See also:early See also:Christian Church, as defined by the Fathers, and later, the offence of " schism " is distinguished from that of " See also:heresy "; it refers not to differences of belief or See also:doctrine, but to the promotion, or the See also:state, of divisions of organisation, and to the formation of bodies See also:separate from the true church, or to dissensions and separations due to disputes over'matters of discipline or authority (see HERESY). The dispute which See also:lea to the separation of the Latin and Greek Churches is known as the " See also:Great Schism," and the division over the See also:election to the Papacy of See also:Urban VI. and See also:Clement VII. as the " Great Schism of the See also:West " (1378—1417) (see PAPACY and CHURCH See also:HISTORY).
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