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In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The split can be violent or nonviolent but results in at least one of the two newly-created bodies considering itself distinct from the other.
The schism between the Western and Eastern Mediterranean Christians resulted from a variety of political, cultural and theological factors which transpired over centuries. Historians regard the mutual excommunications of 1054 as the terminal event.
1054, The Great Schism. Herb Swanson. 2019, https://www.swrktec.org/church. 1054 reexamines all the history of the first millennium trying to answer the question, if the indivisible Church is divided at 1054, where is the indivisible Church. Our research did not lead to any anticipated outcome.
- Herb Swanson
The Western Schism, also known as the Papal Schism, the Great Occidental Schism, or the Schism of 1378 (Latin: Magnum schisma occidentale, Ecclesiae occidentalis schisma), was a split within the Roman Catholic Church lasting from 20 September 1378 to 11 November 1417 in which bishops residing in Rome and Avignon simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, and were eventually joined by a third ...
The East-West Schism (sometimes also called Great Schism or the Schism of 1054) describes how Christianity split into two big branches called denominations in the Middle Ages. The Western part became the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern part became the Eastern Orthodox Church.
This paper will discuss two early Christian Heresies that bares striking similarities in terms of beliefs and doctrines with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as Mormonism. The heresies in question that will be discussed are Montanism and Origensianism.
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Schism, in Christianity, a break in the unity of the church. In the early church, “schism” was used to describe those groups that broke with the church and established rival churches. The term originally referred to those divisions that were caused by disagreement over something other than basic.
