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EARLY CHURCH:
 
EASTER:
 
EBIONITES:
 
ECCLESIASTES:
 
ECCLESIASTICAL:
 
ECCLESIASTICUS:
 
ECKENKAR:
 
ECLECTIC:
 
ECSTASY:
 
ECUMENICAL:
 
ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT:
 
EDDINGTON, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944):
 
EDDY, Mary Baker (1821-1910):
 
EDEN:
 
EDERSHEIM, Alfred (1825-1889):
 
EDHAS:
 
EDWARD VI OF ENGLAND (1537-1553):
 
EDWARDS, Jonathan (1703-1758):
 
EFFABLE:
 
EGOTISM:
 
EIGHTFOLD PATH:
 
EINHEITLICHE WELTANSCHAUUNG:
 
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955):
 
ELDERS:
 
ELECTION:
 
ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES:
 
ELIADE, Mircea (1907-1988):
 
ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965):
 
ELOHIST:
 
EMANATIONISM:
 
EMERGENT EVOLUTION:
 
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882):
 
EMPIRICISM:
 
ENCYCLOPEDISTS:
 
ENGELS, Friedrich (1820-1895):
 
ENGLAND, CHURCH OF:
 
ENLIGHTENMENT [1]:
 
ENLIGHTENMENT [2]:
 
ENTHUSIASM:
 
EPHESUS:
 
EPHESUS, COUNCIL OF:
 
EPICTETUS (60-138 B.C.):
 
EPICUREANISM:
 
EPICURUS (341-270 B.C.):
 
EPIPHANY:
 
EPIPHENOMENALISM:
 
EPISTEMOLOGY:
 
EQUALITY:
 
EQUIVOCATION:
 
ERASMUS, Desiderius (1469-1536):
 
ERHARD SEMINAR TRAINING:
 
ERHARD, Werner (1935-):
 
ERIGENA, Johannes Scotus (815?-877):
 
ESCHATOLOGY:
 
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ESP:
 
ESSENCE:
 
ESSENES:
 
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ETERNAL LIFE:
 
ETERNAL PROGRESSION:
 
ETERNAL RECURRENCE:
 
ETERNITY:
 
ETHICS:
 
ETHIOPIAN CHURCH:
 
EUCHARIST:
 
EUCLID (300 B.C.):
 
EUHEMERISM:
 
EUNUCH:
 
EUPHRATES:
 
EVANGEL:
 
EVANGELICAL:
 
EVANGELIST:
 
EVANGELIZATION:
 
EVANS-PRITCHARD, Edward Evan (1902-1973):
 
EVIL:
 
EVIL EYE:
 
EVOLUTION:
 
EX CATHEDRA:
 
EX NIHILO:
 
EX OPERE OPERATO:
 
EXCLUDED MIDDLE:
 
EXCOMMUNICATE:
 
EXEGESIS:
 
EXISTENCE:
 
EXISTENTIAL:
 
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EXODUS:
 
EXORCISM:
 
EXPLANATION:
 
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EZEKIEL (6th century B.C.):
 
EZRA (5th to 4th century B.C.):
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NATURAL LAW:

a term borrowed from STOIC PHILOSOPHY used by CHRISTIAN philosophers to argue that a RATIONAL order can be detected underlying the universe which enables individuals to make informed judgements about RIGHT and WRONG on the basis of REASON. It is regarded as an unchanging law which expresses the divine NATURE. Although some twentieth century theologians, such as C. S. LEWIS have defended natural law, most have followed Karl BARTH in rejecting it.

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