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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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EPISTEMOLOGY:

comes from the Greek words "episteme" meaning knowledge and "LOGOS" or discourse and is applied to that part of PHILOSOPHY concerned with issues surrounding the origins and nature of human cognition and knowledge.

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