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Concise Dictionary of Religion

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ECCLESIASTICAL:

ECCLESIASTICUS:

ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT:

EDDINGTON, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944):

EDDY, Mary Baker (1821-1910):

EDERSHEIM, Alfred (1825-1889):

EDWARD VI OF ENGLAND (1537-1553):

EDWARDS, Jonathan (1703-1758):

EIGHTFOLD PATH:

EINHEITLICHE WELTANSCHAUUNG:

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955):

ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES:

ELIADE, Mircea (1907-1988):

ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965):

EMERGENT EVOLUTION:

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882):

ENCYCLOPEDISTS:

ENGELS, Friedrich (1820-1895):

ENGLAND, CHURCH OF:

ENLIGHTENMENT [1]:

ENLIGHTENMENT [2]:

EPHESUS, COUNCIL OF:

EPICTETUS (60-138 B.C.):

EPICURUS (341-270 B.C.):

EPIPHENOMENALISM:

ERASMUS, Desiderius (1469-1536):

ERHARD SEMINAR TRAINING:

ERHARD, Werner (1935-):

ERIGENA, Johannes Scotus (815?-877):

ETERNAL PROGRESSION:

ETERNAL RECURRENCE:

ETHIOPIAN CHURCH:

EUCLID (300 B.C.):

EVANGELIZATION:

EVANS-PRITCHARD, Edward Evan (1902-1973):

EX OPERE OPERATO:

EXCLUDED MIDDLE:

EXISTENTIALISM:

EXTINCTION OF OUTFLOWS:

EZEKIEL (6th century B.C.):

EZRA (5th to 4th century B.C.):

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OLDHAM, Joseph Houldsworth (1874-1969):

English ANGLICAN MISSIONARY statesman and organizing secretary of the WORLD MISSIONARY CONFERENCE of 1910 who played an important role in the creating of the WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. His book Christianity and the Race Problem (1924) is an important landmark in the fight against RACISM.