13.9.18

Heresy and schism


And very admirably Nevin (Antichrist, or the Spirit of Sectarianism): ‘Heresy and schism are not indeed the same, but yet they constitute merely the different manifestations of one and the same disease. Heresy is theoretic schism; schism is practical heresy. They continually run into one another, and mutually complete each other. Every heresy is in principle schismatic; every schism is in its innermost constitution heretical’


Richard Chenevix Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), 391.

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