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Definition of Schisms
1. schism [n] - See also: schism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schisms
Literary usage of Schisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Then in consequence of the Arian controversy there arose among the orthodox three
new schisms (§ 50, 8). Among them was a Boman schism, followed later by ..."
2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... Term—Inauguration—Inaugural Speech—Cabinet Changes—Local Republican
schisms—President's Letter to Logan on Consequences of these schisms— Character of ..."
3. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1882)
"Internal schisms in the Republican party were the first political phenomenon of
Jefferson's new ... These schisms, generated in the great Middle States, ..."
4. History of the Church, from Its First Establishment to Our Own Times by Jodocus Adolph Birkhaeuser (1898)
"II. schisms AND CONTROVERSIES. SECTION XXXI. schisms (ft. ... schisms must be
carefully distinguished from what are prop- ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, K. F. Th Schneider (1853)
"Church Divisions or schisms. The schisms, or church divisions in the more limited
sense, must be distinguished from the heresies properly so called. ..."
6. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"... it had the effect of healing old schisms. The southern secession from the
New-School Presbyterian Church, which had come away in 1858 on the slavery ..."
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