schism

(noun)

A division or a split, usually between groups belonging to a religious denomination.

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Examples of schism in the following topics:

  • The Western Schism

    • The Western Schism, or Papal Schism, was a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417.
    • Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418).
    • Efforts were made to end the schism through force or diplomacy.
    • The council elected Pope Martin V in 1417, essentially ending the schism.
    • Explain the events that led to the Western Schism, as well as its eventual resolution

  • The Great Schism of 1054

    • The centuries-long gradual religious separation between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires culminated in the institutional separation known as the East-West Schism.
    • The East–West Schism, also called the Great Schism and the Schism of 1054, was the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches, which has lasted since the 11th century.
    • This was only the first act in a centuries-long process that eventually became a complete schism.
    • This was known as the East-West Schism.
    • The religious distribution after the East-West Schism between the churches of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire in 1054 CE.

  • Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

    • The Protestant Reformation was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other early Protestants.
    • The Protestant Reformation, often referred to simply as the Reformation, was a schism from the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther and continued by other early Protestant reformers in Europe in the 16th century.
    • The core motivation behind these changes was theological, though many other factors played a part, including the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded faith in the papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much traditional thought.
    • Following the breakdown of monastic institutions and scholasticism in late medieval Europe, accentuated by the Avignon Papacy, the Papal Schism, and the failure of the Conciliar movement, the 16th century saw a great cultural debate about religious reforms and later fundamental religious values.

  • The Functionalist Perspective on Deviance

    • While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was nevertheless an overarching social schism.
    • While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was an overarching social schism.

  • The Functions of Deviance

    • While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was nevertheless an overarching social schism.
    • While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was nevertheless an overarching social schism.

  • Religious Denominations

    • In other cases, denominations form very rapidly, from a split or schism in an existing denomination, or if people share an experience of spiritual revival or spiritual awakening and subsequently choose to form a new denomination.

  • The Church During the Italian Renaissance

    • The late Middle Ages was a period of political intrigue surrounding the Papacy, culminating in the Western Schism, in which three men simultaneously claimed to be true Bishop of Rome.
    • While the schism was resolved by the Council of Constance (1414), a resulting reform movement known as Conciliarism sought to limit the power of the pope.

  • The Fourth Crusade

    • The Fourth Crusade is considered to be one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, and a key turning point in the decline of the Byzantine Empire and Christianity in the Near East.
    • Andrew II of Hungary waged the Bosnian Crusade against the Bosnian church, which was theologically Catholic but in long-term schism with the Roman Catholic Church.
    • The collapse of the papacy's moral authority and the rise of nationalism rang the death knell for crusading, ultimately leading to the Avignon Papacy and the Western Schism.

  • Living in Europe

    • Conflicts between the pope and the Holy Roman Empire continued in Central and Southern Europe that included a schism marked by two popes claiming the title and the first sparks of Protestant Reformation.

  • Cult

    • Sociologists still maintain that unlike sects, which are products of religious schism that maintain continuity with traditional beliefs and practices, cults arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.