Sect Church Cycle Examples
What is the sect–church cycle? How can this help us understand social change?
The sect-church cycle is a cycle that begins with church leaders becoming too involved with secular issues in the eyes of some of the churches members. These members then distance themselves from that church and that church’s worldly concerns and corruptions and create their own sect. When that sect picks up enough momentum and following that sect becomes a new religion which becomes a new church, and the cycle continues. (Conley pg. 646) A classic example of this sect-church cycle is Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation. A sect broke off from the catholic church and became a new religion known as the Protestants to escape the corruption of the catholic church.
The sect-church cycle is a cycle that begins with church leaders becoming too involved with secular issues in the eyes of some of the churches members. These members then distance themselves from that church and that church’s worldly concerns and corruptions and create their own sect. When that sect picks up enough momentum and following that sect becomes a new religion which becomes a new church, and the cycle continues. (Conley pg. 646) A classic example of this sect-church cycle is Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation. A sect broke off from the catholic church and became a new religion known as the Protestants to escape the corruption of the catholic church.