schism - use in sentences
Converse of object
- heal: With the schism healed in 1979, Prince Andrej became Grand Master of the Troubletzkoy Order.
- cause: This was later to cause a schism within the Church, more of which will be written later.
- create: The council met to deal with the schism created by Arianism.
- end: Like Erasmus, Grotius sought to end the religious schism and urged the papacy to reconcile with the Protestant faiths.
- prevent: Paul says in verse 25 that it is the mutual care of the members that prevents schism within the body.
- call: There are further phases still to be played out, but the situation at the moment can only be called schism.
Preposition: between
- art: The great schism between art and craft is one of the symptoms of a heirarchical view of art and a particular casualty of modernism.
Preposition: within
- community: Experience in other denominations shows that ordination of deaconesses either paved the way to general female ordination and/or to schism within the communities.
Adjective modifier
- religious: Like Erasmus, Grotius sought to end the religious schism and urged the papacy to reconcile with the Protestant faiths.
- internal: Soon afterward the church experienced a number of internal schisms.
- further: An attempt to replace the leadership in Malta failed, and for a period further schism was avoided.
- great: The great schism is played out from Freud's perspective.
- major: A major schism had arisen in the law of provocation.
- first: The first schism in the Church had been recognized.
Noun used with modifier
- industry: As for the culture and the music industry schism, let's take a stroll back to the 1960s and 1970s.
Preposition: in
- church: Our brethren, whom now you follow, are making a schism in the church: follow them not in this.
- body: You must never have schism in the true body of Christ.
Preposition: of
- church: As he joined me he started discussing the schisms of the churches in South Africa.
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