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Schism In The Fourth Century

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Back in the fourth century, when Constantine saw the church threatened with schism over the Arian controversy, he had called a council. At other times in the centuries immediately thereafter, other cases had been solved by similar means. Later, as the popes gained power, the council became instruments for their policies and programs. Now, as the moral authority of the papacy waned through the decades of the Babylonian Captivity and the ensuring Great Schism, there were many who wrote that a universal council could destroy the great evils of the time, both by restoring unity and by performing the church. They were many calling regarding reforming the church. As a result, people like John Wycliffe, John Huss, and Martin Luther will entail great
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