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Fall,
The |
Christian doctrine that through
the sin of Adam and Eve humanity (and each individual person)
is infected with sinfulness (original sin) that no amount
of striving can overcome. |
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Farid |
North Indian poet (1173 to 1265), part of the
Sant tradition antecedent to Sikhism, some of whose hymns
are found in the Guru Granth Sahib. |
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Fellowship of St
Alban and St Sergius |
An independent society founded in 1928 after
two Anglo-Russian conferences organised by the Student Christian
Movement. It works to increase understanding and co-operation
between Orthodox and Western Christian traditions. |
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Fire Sermon |
A sermon preached by the Buddha in which he
taught that everything internal and external to a person is
burning with the fires of attachment, hatred, delusion, birth,
ageing and death; Nirvana (or nibbana) is the putting out
of these fires. |
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First Communion |
In the Roman Catholic Church, the occasion
on which children first take consecrated bread at a Mass,
generally at the age of seven, is an occasion of particular
celebration. |
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fish |
A symbol of Christianity deriving from the
koiné Greek word for fish, ichthus, which is an acronym for
words meaning 'Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour'. |
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Five Moral Precepts |
The 5 fundamental moral principles adopted
by all Buddhists (Monks, nuns and ordained Buddhists often
adopt more): 1) to refrain from taking life, 2) to refrain
from taking that which is not given, 3) to refrain from sexual
misconduct, 4) to refrain from false speech (e.g. telling
lies) 5) to refrain from taking intoxicants. |
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Four Noble Truths |
As a result of his experience of enlightenment,
Gautama Buddha realised that there were four truths existing
in the universe: 1) The Noble Truth of Suffering 2) The Noble
Truth of the Cause of Suffering (greed, hatred and delusion)
3) The Noble Truth of the Annihilation of Suffering and 4)
The Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Annihilation of
Suffering (the Noble Eightfold Path) |
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four species |
In Hebrew Arba Minim or Lulav: a citron (etrog),
a palm branch (lulav), two sprigs of willow (aravot) and three
branches of myrtle (hadassim), are waved in prayer during
the Jewish festival of Sukkot. |
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