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Concise Dictionary of Religion


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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:
 
ESOTERIC:
 
ESP:
 
ESSENCE:
 
ESSENES:
 
EST:
 
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:
 
EXISTENTIALISM:
 
EXODUS:
 
EXORCISM:
 
EXPLANATION:
 
EXTINCTION OF OUTFLOWS:
 
EZEKIEL (6th century B.C.):
 
EZRA (5th to 4th century B.C.):
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ECSTASY:

literally means "standing outside of oneself" and has traditionally been applied to those PSYCHIC or spiritual states which are supposed to seize MYSTICS and/or PROPHETS.

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