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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):

EMANATIONISM:

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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EMANATIONISM:

the view that the UNIVERSE flows from the BEING of GOD rather like the rays of the sun shine forth from the sun. This viewpoint is found in YOGIC philosophies and such Western systems as NEO-PLATONISM and GNOSTICISM.