Sentence examples for church separating from inspiring English sources

The dispute has divided the church, separating siblings and parents and children.

In the meantime, two factions diverged in the Roman church, separating the lapsed, Christians who had complied with the edicts to ensure their own safety, and the rigorists, those who would brook no compromise with secular authority.

Later, after the Nestorian church separated from the Monophysites, whose centre was in Antioch, the Nestorian church dominated Mesopotamia until the end of the Sāsānian dynasty, when the Monophysites were growing in numbers.

1861-85 - LiberuleParty rule sees country divided into nine largely autonomous entities and the church separated from the state.

With regard to the Management Institute, as shown in Fig. 5d, in the south eastern direction of the station, large area compound of St. Mariam church separated the station from the neighborhood.

The Swedish and Roman Catholic churches separated as the Reformation spread, and the Lutheran Swedish church was eventually adopted as the state church.

The canon law of the Eastern and Western churches was much the same in form until these two groups of churches separated in the Schism of 1054.

LONDON — The pope and the archbishop prayed together last weekend, a rare event at Westminster Abbey meant to show the fundamental closeness of Catholics and Anglicans, their churches separated in doctrine by few degrees and each battered by secularism and division.

Becoming a friend of the Separatist John Greenwood, Barrow was persuaded by him to accept the Brownist position, named for Robert Browne, who advocated the foundation of churches separate from secular governmental authority.

That certainly seems an odd way to keep the state and church separate.KENNETH KRASITYBeverly Hills, MichiganSIR If parents are permitted by laws and judgments at federal and state level to encash their children's vouchers only in secular schools, is that not in itself the most blatant intermingling of the affairs of church and state?

There should be no church separate from the religion instituted and regulated by the state.