Feb 06, 2006

Bastion
a defensive stronghold
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=bastion
"The church became last bastion against barbarism."
"the last bastion of communism"

Serfdom
A serf is a laborer who is bound to the land. Serfs formed the lowest social class of the feudal society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom

Road to Serfdom
http://nonestopthinking.blogspot.com/2006/02/road-to-serfdom.html

The Great Schism

schism -- split, disunion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-West_Schism

The East-West Schism, known also as the Great Schism (though this latter term sometimes refers to the later Western Schism), was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Though normally dated to 1054, when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other, the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between the two Churches.

Babylonian Captivity

or Babylonian exile, is the name generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.

Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church is a theological work by the Reformer Martin Luther.

Regimentation
the imposition of order or discipline

regiment

1. A military unit of ground troops consisting of at least two battalions, usually commanded by a colonel.

2. A large group of people.

reg·i·ment·ed, reg·i·ment·ing, reg·i·ments

1. To form into a regiment.

2. To put into systematic order; systematize.

3. To subject to uniformity and rigid order.