The Great Schism

I can explain why the Christian Church split in two in 1054.

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    • Some of the disputes resulted in the location and relative isolation of the two centres of Christianity.
    • There were liturgical disputes between different members of the Church.
    • One dispute concerned the nature of the Holy Spirit.
    • These disputes resulted in the Church splitting into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
    • The 1054 Schism could be regarded as a transformational change.

    Common mix-up

    “Christianity is a single religion.”

    There are more than 45 000 different Christian denominations around the world today: although most of them believe the same fundamental things, there are stark differences between many of them.

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    Church
    the Church is the organisation of the Christian religion
    Holy Spirit
    in Christianity, the Holy Spirit is the manifestation of God in the world
    liturgy
    liturgy means the form in which worship is conducted
    schism
    a schism is a split between strongly opposed parties

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