The booklets cover a wide range of topics and can be categorized as: Introductory Booklets ; Specific Teachings ( on the main topics of Buddhist doctrine, such as the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, dependent origination, the three marks of existence, kamma and rebirth, and so forth ); Meditation and Mind Training ; Dhamma Reflections ( more personal explorations of the relevance of Buddhist principles for spiritual understanding and practice ); Philosophy and Psychology ; Faith and Devotion ; Monastic Life ; Comparative Studies ; Buddhist History and Culture ; Buddhism and the World Today ; Translations from the Pali Canon ; Non-Canonical Buddhist Literature.

Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna ( Reconstructed Sanskrit: Mahāyāna Śraddhotpāda Śāstra ; ) is a text of the Mahāyāna branch of Buddhism.

The eclectic German Faith Movement ( Deutsche Glaubensbewegung ), founded by the Sanskrit scholar Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, enjoyed a degree of popularity during the Nazi period.

'' A hymn often to be heard in Catholic churches is `` Faith Of Our Fathers '', which glories in England's ancient faith that endured persecution, and which proclaims: `` Faith of our Fathers: Mary's prayers Shall win our country back to thee ''.

The teachings of the Bahá ' í Faith state that the nature of the afterlife is beyond the nature of those living, just as an unborn fetus cannot understand the nature of the world outside of the womb.

In its 1982 statement on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches stated that " the primary manifestation of apostolic succession is to be found in the apostolic tradition of the Church as a whole ….

* 1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá ' í Faith is elected for the first time.

The Bahá ' í Faith () is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá ' u ' lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.

In the Bahá ' í Faith, religious history is seen to have unfolded through a series of divine messengers, each of whom established a religion that was suited to the needs of the time and the capacity of the people.

The word " Bahá ' í " is used either as an adjective to refer to the Bahá ' í Faith or as a term for a follower of Bahá ' u ' lláh.

The term " Bahaism " ( or " Baha ' ism ") has been used in the past, but the generally accepted name for the religion is the Bahá ' í Faith.

In Thailand's constitutional monarchy, the monarch is recognized as the Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, Upholder of the Buddhist Religion, and Defender of the Faith.

On his way there he taught the Faith in the town of Mombrione, which is called San Colombano to this day.

Chicago's northern suburb of Wilmette, Illinois, is the Bahá ' í Temple, the only temple for the Bahá ' í Faith in North America.

Faith is voluntary, and the decision to believe is a crucial fundamental step in becoming closer to God.

Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers, but Theodosius II, the Roman Emperor, condemned him for behaving like a " proud pharaoh ", and the Nestorian bishops at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic, labelling him as a " monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

Faith, then, is life-transforming by definition.

Each fellowship has a statement of faith, the most common of which is the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith ( BASF ), named after an ecclesia in Birmingham.

Another example is its self-description as the " Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church " in the 24 April 1870 Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith of the First Vatican Council.

Since it would be impossible for the Bahá ' í Faith to unite the world if it were itself disunited, the role of the covenant as the guarantor of the unity of the Bahá ' í community becomes inextricably linked with the goal of world unity: " It is evident that the axis of oneness of the world of humanity is the power of the Covenant and nothing else.

Being declared a Covenant-breaker is done by the head of the Faith — which since 1963 refers to the elected nine-member Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís.

Rather, it is in reference to internal campaigns of opposition where the Covenant-breaker is challenging the unity of the Faith, causing internal division, or by claiming or supporting an alternate succession of authority or administrative structure.

* " Treacherous Ruhi Afnan, not content with previous disobedience, correspondence with Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, contact with old Covenant-breakers, sale, in conjunction with other members of family, of sacred property purchased by Founder of Faith, and allowing his sister to marry son of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's enemy, is now openly lecturing on Bahá ' í movement, claiming to be its exponent and is misrepresenting the teachings and deliberately causing confusion in minds of authorities and the local population.

Among the most important are a controversial treatise on the Catholic Faith, in which are refuted what he saw as the principal errors of the Chinese ; The True Origin of All Things ; and The Life of God, the Saviour, from the Four Gospels.

Some of the splits have been due to doctrinal controversy, while some have been caused by disagreement concerning the degree to which those ordained to church office should be required to agree with the Westminster Confession of Faith, which historically serves as an important confessional document-second only to the Bible, yet directing particularities in the standardization and translation of the Bible-in Presbyterian churches.

Such exemplary saints include martyrs, confessors of the Faith, evangelists, or important biblical figures such as Saint Matthew, the Lutheran theologian and martyr to the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered founder John Wesley are among many cited as Protestant saints.

Faith in the medical system is important to the success of organ donation.

His most important work, Rosh Amanah (" The Pinnacle of Faith "), defends Maimonides ' thirteen articles of belief against attacks of Hasdai Crescas and Yosef Albo.

Another important aspect in the schism was a conference held at Ohnenheim, Alsace, by several Swiss Brethren ministers and elders in 1660, in which they formally adopted the Dordrecht Confession of Faith that had been drawn up by Dutch Mennonites.

" Beyond this scriptural authority, Quakers place importance on being truthful at all times, so the testimony opposing oaths springs from a view that " taking legal oaths implies a double standard of truthfulness " Faith and Practice of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( 1988 ) p. 19 suggesting that truthfulness in legal contexts is somehow more important than truthfulness in non-legal contexts and that truthfulness in those other contexts is therefore somehow less important.

Arguably the most important book devoted to Sor Juana, written by Octavio Paz, Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith ( translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, 1989 ), is a work contemplating Sor Juana's poetry and life in the context of the history of New Spain, particularly focusing on the difficulties women then faced while trying to thrive in academic and artistic fields.

Adoption was an important feature of Reformation theology as demonstrated by article 12 of the Westminster Confession of Faith:

The most important fracture in the church's history, though, was when, in 1957, Smallwood E. Williams led about 70 churches out of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith to form the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith retrieves the box for him, which Buffy then steals in order to prevent this important ritual from occurring.

Such a renewal of Jerusalem, if a reconstruction, is an important theme in Judaism, Christianity, and the Bahá ' í Faith.

Faith ( saddha / sraddha ) is an important Buddha's teaching element in both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions.

Detachment as release from desire and consequently from suffering is an important principle, or even ideal, in the Bahá ' í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism and Taoism.

A characteristic instance of his vacillation is afforded by his most important religious work, the " Rosh Amanah " ( The Pinnacle of Faith ), based on Cant.

Faith on the part of the one who prays is essential for healing, but many times faith on the part of one being prayed for is important as well.

The first known work giving a fictional description of the Khazars, and in many ways still the most important and influential of them, is The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith by Yehuda Halevi ( 1140 ).

Morey has been an adherent of the Bahá ' í Faith since 1970 after he came across a ' unity feast ' at a Kauai beach, where " whites, blacks and Hawaiians, mixed cordially " " After a couple of months of attending informal meetings on Bahá ' í teachings-I realized this was very something important not to toy with ; rather to become immersed in.

Other important documents include the encyclicals The Gospel of Life (" Evangelium Vitae ") and Faith and Reason (" Fides et Ratio "), and the Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen (" Light of the East ").

His most important work was Troens rare klenodie ( 1739 ; " The Rare Jewel of the Faith "), which contained many translations of German Pietist hymns and 82 original pieces and went though seven editions in Brorson's lifetime.

Scholarly reviews styled Schaefer ’ s book as “ an important contribution to the critical study of the Bahá ’ í religion ” “ clarifying many misconceptions ” and presenting “ a picture of the Baha ’ i Faith that no future researcher in the field can afford to overlook ”.

On having a Critical Faith: an Evolutionary Approach is particularly important in this respect.