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Episcopi vagantes
(Lat., ‘wandering bishops’).
Bishops
who have been consecrated in an irregular manner or who, having been regularly consecrated, have ceased to be in communion with any major Church.
Bishops
who have been consecrated in an irregular manner or who, having been regularly consecrated, have ceased to be in communion with any major Church.
Epistemology
(reflection on how knowledge arises)
:
(reflection on how knowledge arises)
:
Epistle
.
.
The usual word for a letter, especially of the New Testament, and in liturgical use.
Epoche
(bracketing out)
:
(bracketing out)
:
Equiprobabilism
(ethical choice where more than one possibility obtains)
:
(ethical choice where more than one possibility obtains)
:
Erasmus, Desiderius
(
c.
1466–1536).
Christian humanist. Taught by the Brethren of the Common Life (see
GROOTE
, G.) at Deventer, Erasmus became an Augustinian monk in 1486 and was ordained priest in 1492. Erasmus was Europe's most outstanding scholar in the early 16th cent. His merciless satire exposed ecclesiastical abuses, but he was not remotely tempted to join the
Reformers
, fearing radicalism and the cost of change. His influential writings include
Adagia
(1500), a popular edn. of Gk. and Lat. proverbs,
The Christian Soldier's Dagger or Handbook
(1504), and
The Praise of Folly
(1509).
c.
1466–1536).
Christian humanist. Taught by the Brethren of the Common Life (see
GROOTE
, G.) at Deventer, Erasmus became an Augustinian monk in 1486 and was ordained priest in 1492. Erasmus was Europe's most outstanding scholar in the early 16th cent. His merciless satire exposed ecclesiastical abuses, but he was not remotely tempted to join the
Reformers
, fearing radicalism and the cost of change. His influential writings include
Adagia
(1500), a popular edn. of Gk. and Lat. proverbs,
The Christian Soldier's Dagger or Handbook
(1504), and
The Praise of Folly
(1509).
Erastianism
.
.
The view that the state has the right and responsibility to intervene in and control the affairs of the Christian Church as it appears in a particular State. The view was proposed by Thomas Erastus (Germ. Liebler, Lieber, or Lübler), 1524–83, against the
Calvinists
.
Calvinists
.
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