Sentence examples for schism of the from inspiring English sources
He was, after all, on the wrong side of the great emotional schism of the past few years, over immigration; he has always cut a lonely figure.
In 1378 it was the scene of the conclave that elected Antipope Clement VII, giving rise to the Great Schism of the Western church (1378 1417).
West Point is no stranger to change, from the bitter schism of the Civil War, in which graduates fought on different sides, to the nuclear age.
There is talk everywhere of a Republican "civil war," of a "schism," of the G.O.P. as "a coalition of two parties" that can no longer stand the sight of one another.
The 1919 murder of the Communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht produced the enmity between Communists and Social Democrats that became the most enduring schism of the left.
Then, the electoral struggle played out against the backdrop of Reconstruction, with the great national schism of the Civil War still haunting the American consciousness, but now an unusually broad national consensus prevails on ends, if not on means.
21, 1059, Madytus, near Constantinople), Greek Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople from March 1043 to November 1058 who figured prominently in the events leading to the Schism of 1054, the formal severing of Eastern Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism.
The second remark is that, through the first eight ecumenical councils (before the Schism of 1054), the Christian church arrived at nonbiblical formulas to profess its faith.
Geyl's work is noted for its emphasis on foreign policy in contrast to constitutional questions, careful analysis of the geographic and military factors behind the religious schism of the Netherlands, and scrupulous and conscientious standards of historical scholarship.
After the great schism of 1827, the images become more volatile.
During a period of strife between Constantinople and Rome culminating in the East-West Schism of 1054, the Normans began to advance, slowly but steadily, into Byzantine Italy.
