Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Communal schism as dismemberment of a sacred body

communal_schism_as_dismemberment_of_a_sacred_body

A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


christian apocrypha

  • The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete CHAPTER XVII. / CHAPTER XVIII. / CHAPTER XIX. / CHAPTER XX.; lines 12581-12785 confidence: high

    The speaker asks why strife and schism exist among those with one God, Christ, Spirit, and calling; divisions are described as tearing Christ’s members, and a saying of Lord Jesus warns against causing offences, using the millstone-and-sea image.

    The passage frames strife and divisions as rending and tearing the members of Christ and forgetting mutual membership.

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