How To Use Schismatic In A Sentence

  • Mahomet would have ranked only as a Christian heresiarch or schismatic; such as Nestorius or Marcian at one time, such as Arius or Pelagius at another. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
  • If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
  • The schismatic and regionalised development of the resistance has been its greatest weakness to date.
  • Although "mumpsimus" is the very motto for the Russian schismatics, and although ignorance and superstition were the root of the matter, they combined with a dread of arbitrary change by an arbitrary power, and supplied a basis for resistance to Erastianism and the fusion of Church and State. Lectures on Modern history
  • We do not know how Meyerbeer got his idea of putting the schismatic John Huss on the stage under the name of John of Leyden. Musical Memories
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  • Our prayer is that this will bring back many ofthe clergy and lay faithful who have gravitated to schismatic groups in reaction to serious abuses committed bysome priests who have irreverently celebrated the new Mass in English since the Vatican II. Archive 2007-08-01
  • ’ ‘Schismatical, thou shouldst have said, ’ quoth the barber, ‘and not phlegmatical. The Fourth Book. V. Treating of That Which Befel All Don Quixote His Train in the Inn
  • In the preface Platina not only avoids any antagonism towards the Church but even refers with approbation to the punishing of heretics and schismatics by the popes, which is the best proof that Sixtus IV, by his marks of favour, had won Platina for the interests of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • * Solet autem etiam quaeri schismatici quid ab haereticis distent, et hoc inveniri quod schismaticos non fides diversa faciat sed communionis disrupta societas. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
  • If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
  • When he refused to obey their summons, they deposed him, declaring him to be disobedient, obstinate, rebellious, a breaker of rules, a perturber of ecclesiastical unity, a perjurer, a schismatic, The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
  • Bishops who deny the authority of Scripture and declare that God has changed his mind on matters of sexual ethics, they say, are heretics, not just schismatics.
  • In the "interpolated" manuscripts we find that the lapsed, whose caused had now been settled by the council, are "on that hand" (illic), whereas the reference to the schismatics -- meaning the Roman confessors who were supporting Novatian, and to whom the book was being sent -- are made as pointed as possible, being brought into the foreground by the repeated hic, "on this hand". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Last month, Benedict met with the head of the Society of St Pius X, the schismatic traditionalist movement whose leaders were excommunicated under Pope John Paul II.
  • Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
  • Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
  • This, he says, was due to the fact that ‘the South's religious mind was inarticulate, dissenting, and schismatical.’
  • In 1920 a group of dissident priests formed a schismatic Czechoslovak Church after the Vatican rejected their demands for such reforms as the use of the vernacular in the liturgy and voluntary clerical celibacy.
  • How far James contemplated turning Edinburgh into the orthodox rival of a schismatic Westminster is an interesting question, but the surviving evidence suggests he was more concerned with siring his army of bastard children.
  • If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
  • In this way, they proved that their true allegiance had always been with those uncanonical and schismatic groups.
  • Strictly speaking, any male Christian who has reached the use of reason can be chosen -- not, however, a heretic, a schismatic, or a notorious simonist. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • The job of a marketer is to cultivate this schismatic core, this broken soul, at the center of every product. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • Can those of you who believe that pagans, Jews, heretics and schismatics can share in eternal life explain how you interpret this?
  • As Rose writes of the professor, ‘He was drawn to schismatics, fiery heretics, apostates - the lunatics of history.’
  • Gregory Palamas, the defender of the Hesychast theories and the bitter enemy of the Catholics in the fourteenth century, who is still regarded as one of the greatest doctors of the Schismatic Church; The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • In fact, his election discredited the conciliar movement as being schismatic.
  • Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
  • With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council. Michael Carmichael: The Political Titanic
  • Some churchmen are heard to grumble about violations of the prohibitions of shared worship with heretics and schismatics.
  • In the Christian dispensation the neighbour is not only one of the true faith, but the schismatic , the outcast, and the pagan.
  • Opposition to control by an Irish-American Catholic hierarchy gave rise to bitter conflicts and even a schismatic Polish National Catholic Church.
  • If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
  • She remembered the schismatic Patriarchs of the later Roman empire.
  • Right now, I feel this country needs that empathy more than anything else because we have a schismatic president who is portraying the world as a simplistic black-and-white cartoon.
  • It was the unsurprising conviction of the Catholic bishops that the Catholic Church was the true church and that Orthodox Christians were schismatics.
  • Their prayers and sermons excited the people against the impious Barbarians; and the patriarch is accused of declaring, that the faithful might obtain the redemption of all their sins by the extirpation of the schismatics. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Thus, the schismatic group was not necessarily heretical.
  • So it was that his invasion of England, where the church was schismatic, was officially a crusade and a papal banner flew over the Norman knights at Hastings.
  • The schismatic group bought the meeting house of the Unitarians located on the corner of Bull and York Streets.
  • Of all men in the world the sensualist is the greatest schismatic. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • Under the Venetian domination the schismatics were dependent on a protopapas who in turn depended on the Patriachate of Constantinople. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • The castles themselves helped to fuel the growing schismatic power of the Barons in later years to the great detriment of the local populace.
  • Heaven for sending Jeanie safe down from the land of prelatic deadness and schismatic heresy; and had delivered her from the dangers of the way, and the lions that were in the path. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Perhaps we'll all think of him from time to time while we exercise the right to rip each other apart with terse comments and schismatic sentiments.
  • Most accepted, but minorities existed, some still adhering to Rome, others, though not yet schismatic, to Presbyterianism or more extreme Protestant views.
  • This led church councils to impose their collective authority over unacceptable and (in this case) schismatic popes.
  • We learn also from St. Siricius that, after annulling the Council of Rimini, Liberius issued a decree forbidding the re-baptism of those baptized by Arians, which was being practiced by the Luciferian schismatics. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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