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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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ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT:

the twentieth century movement to unite CHRISTIAN CHURCHES which began with the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910 and led to the founding of the WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES in 1938.