The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (190 page)

Andrew, St
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One of the twelve
apostles
of Jesus. He was the brother of
Peter
, and is mentioned by name in several stories in the gospels (e.g. John 6. 8). According to the
Acts of Andrew
, a 3rd-cent. work now partly lost, he was crucified in Patras in Greece. The tradition that his cross was X-shaped goes back no further than the 10th cent. He is
patron saint
of Russia and of Scotland. Feast day, 30 Nov.

 
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(1555–1626).
Anglican
bishop
. In 1601 he became Dean of Westminster, was consecrated bishop in 1605, becoming bishop of Winchester in 1619. He was famous as a preacher, and it is on his sermons and his
Preces Privatae
(Private Prayers) that his importance rests. T. S.
Eliot
regarded his sermons as ranking ‘with the finest English prose of their time, of any time’ (
For Lancelot Andrewes
): ‘He takes a word and derives a world from it.’

 
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(Skt.,
anek
nta
= ‘non-one-sidedness’ or ‘manysidedness’). In Jain philosophy, the doctrine of the manysidedness of reality. The doctrine claims that seven assertions, apparently contradictory, but perfectly true, can be made about anything:

(i) 
sy
dasti
, maybe it truly is (for example, a cold room);
(ii) 
sy
nn
sti
, maybe it truly is not (if you enter it from a colder one);
(iii) 
sy
dastin
sti
, maybe it truly is and is not (two different people's opposite statements could be true);
(iv) 
sy
davaktarya
, maybe it is exhaustively indescribable (if two opposite statements are relatively true);
(v) 
sy
dastyavaktarya
, maybe it is and is indescribable;
(vi) 
sy
nn
st yavaktavya
, maybe it is not and is undescribable;
(vii) 
sy
dastin
styavaktavya
, maybe it is and is not and is indescribable

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