The Evangelical Dictionary of World Religions

LIST OF ENTRIES

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Adam-God Theory

Adventist Movement

Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam

Ahmadiyya Islam

Albertus Magnus

Ali, Maulana Muhammad

American Zen College

Ananda Marga Yoga Society

Anandamurti, Shrii Shrii

Annihilationism

Anthropology in Christian Theology

Anthropology of Religion

Antinomianism, Non-Christian

Apostasy, Biblical View of

Apostasy, Mormon View of

Apostles, Belief in the Modern Existence of

Arihant (Jainism)

Articles of Faith, Mormon

Auroville International

Azusa Street Revival

Bahá’u’lláh

Baptism, Christian

Baptism, Non-Christian

Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Pentecostal View of

Baptism of the Dead, Christian

Baptism of the Dead, Mormon

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam

Benson, Ezra Taft

Beth el Shaddai Messianic Fellowship

Bible, Canon of

bin Laden, Osama bin Muhammad bin ‘Awad

Blood Atonement

Blood Transfusions

Book of Abraham

Book of Mencius (Meng-tzu)

Book of the Dead, Egyptian

Book of the Dead, Tibetan

Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization

Buddha, Historical Person of

Buddha, Names of

Buddha, Nine Attributes of

Buddha, Three Bodies of

Buddhist Churches of America

Buddhist Scriptures

Celestial Kingdom

Celestial Marriage

Chalcedonian Controversy

Chan-khong/Zhenkong

Chen-jen/Zhenren

Chinmaya Mission

Chinmayananda, Swami

Christ, Natures and Attributes of

Christian, Use and Misuse of the Term

Christianity, Protestant

Christian Zionism

Ch’un Ch’iu / Chunqiu

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Community of Christ

Conditional Immortality

Council of the Seventy

Cowdery, Oliver

Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso)

Dark Skin Curse

Day of Judgment, Islamic

Deification, Christian View of

Deification, Mormon View of

Demons and Demonization in the Bible

Dependent Origination

Divination in the Bible

Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine of the Mean (Chung-yung/Zhongyong)

Dual Covenant Theory

Eastern Orthodoxy

Effendí, Shoghí

Fana (or Fanaa)

Forty Immortals

Four Noble Truths

Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

Fundamentalism, Christian

Gabriel the Archangel, Non-Christian Views of

Gabriel the Archangel in the Bible

Genealogies, Mormon

God, Mormon View of

Gospel of Barnabas

Great Learning, The

Guru Granth Sahib

Gyatso, Geshe Kelsang

Hanukkah (or Chanukah), Feast of

Heaven, Biblical Doctrine of

Heavenly Mother

Hell, Orthodox and Unorthodox Christian Views of

Heresy, Definition of

Holy Spirit, Biblical View of

Holy Spirit, Misconceptions about

Hsiao-ching/Xiaojing

I Ching / Yijing

International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)

Islam, Basic Beliefs of

Islam, Eschatology of

Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW)

Jesus, Historical Evidence for

Jesus, Mormon View of

Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible

Journal of Discourses

Justification, Biblical Doctrine of

Kalacakra Tantra

Knights Templar

Kosher (Kasher)

Krishna Consciousness

Lao Tzu / Laozi

Legalism from a Christian Perspective

Liberal Christianity

Lost Books of the Bible, Mormon View of

Lucifer, Mormon View of

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Mahayana Buddhism

Mandala Diagram

Maronite Christians

Martial Arts, East Asian

Michael the Archangel

Miller, William

Millerite Movement

Miracles in Non-Christian Religions

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Muhammad, Elijah

Nation of Islam

Native Americans, Mormon View of

Neo-orthodox Christianity

New World Translation

Nibley, Hugh Winder

Nichiren Daishonin

Nichiren Shoshu

Oneness Pentecostalism

Openness of God

Origen on Preexistence

Paramahansa, Swami Muktananda

Pearl of Great Price, The

Pesach (Passover)

Plural Marriage, Mormon Teaching and History of

Prabhupada, Abhay Charan de Bhaktivedanta Swami

Pratyeka Buddha

Preexistence, Mormon View of

Process Theology

Providence of God

Pure Land Buddhism

Purim (the Feast of Lots)

Quorum of the Seventy

Ramakrishna, Sri

Ramana Maharishi

Reformed Egyptian

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Resurrection of Jesus

Revelation, General

Rites of Passage

Roman Catholicism

Rosh Hashanah (the Feast of Trumpets)

Sai Baba, Sathya

Salvation, Evangelical View of

Sankirtan, The Hare Krishna Practice of

Scripture, Interpretation of

Seventh-day Adventism

Shabbat (the Sabbath), Jewish

Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks)

Shih Ching / Shijing

Shu-ching/Shujing

Sikh Foundation

Smith, Joseph, III

Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Smith, Joseph F.

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Smith Bidamon, Emma

Sociology of Religion

Speaking in Tongues

Spirituality, Christian

Sukkoth (the Feast of Tabernacles)

Tao Te Ching / Dao de jing

Telestial Kingdom

Temple in Judaism

Temples in Mormonism

Ten Lost Tribes, Alternative Views of

Terrestrial Kingdom

Testimony in Mormonism

Theological Method of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Theravada Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Trinitarian Controversies

Trinity, Patristic Support for

Urim and Thummim, Mormon Use of

Vajrayana Buddhism

Wahhabiyya Islam

War and Peace in World Religions

Watchtower, The

Wisdom, Biblical View of

World Council of Churches

World’s Parliament of Religions (1893 and 1993)

Yogananda, Swami Paramahansa

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

Zarathustra (Nietzsche)

Zhuang-zi/Chuang-tzu

Zion, Mormon Beliefs about