The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (797 page)

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Fletcher, J.
(exponent of Situation Ethics):
see
ETHICS
(CHRISTIANITY).
Flight of the alone to the Alone
:
Flirty fishing
(conversion technique of The Family)
:
Flood
.
Deluge described in Genesis 6. 1–9. 18. For the flood of Manu in India, see
PRALAYA
.
Florence, Council of
(1438–45). Council which effected a brief reunion of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Long sessions at Ferrara, then at Florence, discussed the problems of the
filioque
, unleavened bread (see
AZYMITES
) in the
eucharist
,
purgatory
, the
epiclesis
, and the primacy of Rome. The union was doomed by the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and was formally repudiated in 1472. The Council of Florence also established short-lived unions with other Eastern churches. See also
LAETENTUR COELI
.
Florenz, Karl A.
(1865–1939).
German scholar in the early 20th cent. who translated the ancient
Shinto
texts into German and wrote extensively on Shinto and
Japanese religion
and literature.

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