Sentence examples for three-way schism from inspiring English sources

Lacking a central authority, the chili community finds itself embroiled in a three-way schism.

Claiming that the office of the papacy lacked scriptural justification, he equated the pope with Antichrist and welcomed the 14th-century schism in the papacy as a prelude to its destruction.

Since the 7th-century schism between Sunni and Shi'ite Islam, relations have been punctuated by conflict.

IN THE 15th century a schism opened in the world of beer.

Both pieces were made recently for a dance festival in Avignon, France, and both the period music and the choreography allude to religious turmoil and massacres surrounding the 14th-century papal schism.

In his first public comments on the Lambeth Conference, Pope Benedict XVI has warned Anglican leaders that they must find a "mature" and faithful way of avoiding "schism".

In the end, there is something more revealing here, which does much to explain the way that the schism in the Anglican Communion will come to England.

Witch-hunting was popular in Europe and North America in the 16th and 17th centuries due to the schism within western Christianity that bred spiritual insecurity and mass hysteria.

Set in the 16th century, "Red" presents the schism as the incursion of Renaissance painting -- representational, three-dimensional and with an individualist vision -- into the sultan's court.

Differences of opinion over similar issues in the 4th century led to a schism between Rome and the churches of North Africa.

"I'm thinking that all the talk of schism is way overestimated," said the Rev. Michael W. Hopkins, the president of Integrity, an alliance of gay Episcopalians.