How To Use Monotheism In A Sentence
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This is no place to discuss the relative virtues of monotheism and polytheism and their good or sinister influence upon the whole character, nay, the very life of individuals and nations.
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Originally established as a response to polytheism and idol worship, Judaism has been quite successful in perpetuating its belief in monotheism in that it is the parent religion of both Christianity and Islam.
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This is not simply a clichéd clash between Islamic monotheism and Hindu polytheism as is made out in standard accounts on the subject.
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This is not simply a clichéd clash between Islamic monotheism and Hindu polytheism as is made out in standard accounts on the subject.
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I operate a religious website that promotes tolerant monotheism (Deism, Unitarianism, Judaism) and I can't believe the volume of hate mail I get.
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To ascribe features of masculinity to the divine is as blasphemous as to ascribe features of bestiality -- as in the theriomorphic deities of pagan religions so abhorred by monotheism -- the very blasphemy that iconoclasm reacts against.
A Response to a Response
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Monotheism leads to wars because everyone presumes their god/goddess gives them the divine right against all other heathens.
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The common centre and starting-point of fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism on this view (the 'dispersive' view) of the evolution of religion lies in the heart of man, in a consciousness, originally vague in the extreme, of the personality and superiority to man of the being or object worshipped.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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Concerning the latter section, namely the shape of Christology in Early Christianity, was the consensus among Jewish thinking fixed on monotheism per say, rather than that of monolatry?
Larry Hurtado: How Did Jesus Become A God?
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The monotheism of the Jews, and of the Christianity that developed from Jewish origins, was central to the moral identity of the West.
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Students were assigned to three distinctive world views: monotheism, polytheism, and atheism.
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The Indo-Iranian Kurds have their own language, script, and religion, Ezidism, which may be the world's oldest monotheism.
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On the other hand, Monotheism, like Polytheism, is a term applying primarily to a concrete system of religion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world.
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And my early religiousness gradually developed into monotheism.
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John Anderson has a post on masseboth standing stones, which are important archaeological evidence about ancient Israel, and raise interesting questions both about Israelite "monotheism" and aniconism.
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Paul's monotheism, which included the view that God controlled everything that happened, was braver than that.
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The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world.
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But what's different about this human depiction of God, this notion of monotheism, is that it transfers real material scarcity to divinity.
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Once the option for religion has been made, the only serious alternatives are pantheism and monotheism.
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You're talking about monotheism as if its synonomous with fundamentalism and religious intolerance, which strikes me as a bit of a straw man argument.
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What features in this world would make you accept the following: a) polytheism, b) ditheism, c) monotheism?
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The idea that Hinduism is a single unified religion is difficult to justify, since there are many different perspectives (monotheism, monism and polytheism), scriptures (the Vedas, the Upanishads etc.), and practices such as bhakti and smrti (Baird, 1968: 28).
The Rammohun Roy connection
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We brought monotheism to a pagan world, and guaranteed women's rights in marriage.
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Pantheism can no more account for any decadence than monotheism.
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Additionally, monotheism was held to entail certain consequences, including universalism, anti-superstition and magic, ethical, aniconic.
Early Jewish Monotheisms
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He is One in the true sense of the word that has no room for the concept of trinity, or for any other form of camouflage monotheism or a disguised polytheism.
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Slide 33: akhenaton Nagpatupad ng Monotheism (pananalig sa iisang Diyos) Pagsamba kay Aton sa statuette na ito ipinakikita si Nefertiti (asawa ni
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It seems to have something to do with monotheism, or narrow salvationist ideas.
Advice for the Theistic Evolutionists
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Therefore, if Moses did espouse monolatry, then did Early Judaism see a trend toward monotheism, leadign up to Christ, away from the earlier Mosaic monolatry?
Larry Hurtado: How Did Jesus Become A God?
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This monotheism, this religion of the one, of course has universal appeal.
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When newborn empires and monotheism end the era of tribal society, states come into being and become the supreme form of communities, ethnic groups and various religious ethical culture.
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Jerusalem is the common holy place of three kinds of monotheism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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He preached a strict monotheism, opposed both to the secular morality of educated Chinese and to the pantheism of popular religion.
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What I'm really seeking to discredit is a specific component of homodoxy exhibited most notably in monotheism but just as present in polytheist and atheist homodoxies.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE
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I think, he says, I need new terms here entirely because, yes, not all monotheism is universalist and predicated on the faith/doubt, win/lose scenario of Pascalus's Christianity (as your example of Judaism illustrates), not all polytheism is of that Graeco-Roman nature (as your example of Hinduism points out), and the atheism I'm talking about really includes antitheist and agnostic outlooks in its focus on doubt.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE
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To ascribe features of masculinity to the divine is as blasphemous as to ascribe features of bestiality -- as in the theriomorphic deities of pagan religions so abhorred by monotheism -- the very blasphemy that iconoclasm reacts against.
A Response to a Response
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In terms of intent -- how we're meant to read God -- I think you absolutely have to distinguish the immanent all-pervasive divinity of animism from the transcendant all-powerful divinity of monotheism.
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To be gripped by one great integrating, imperative concern or desire is like monotheism - worship of one divinity.
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Pure monotheism was by then securely established in the Second Temple of Jerusalem, but remained shaky elsewhere.
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In religion, logocentrism implies monotheism; in psychology, it assumes an autonomous, unified subjectivity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It may be something to do with being a universalizing, salvationist monotheism.
Those damned media atheists.
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The ideological clash between monotheism and polytheism furnishes the world with one of its first examples of asymmetrical warfare.
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The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world.
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There are parallels to Greco-Roman mythology, particularly in its depiction of the underworld and death, and to Christian beliefs such as monotheism and the existence of a messiah.
Archive 2010-01-01
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Jerusalem is the common holy place of three kinds of monotheism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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In a contest with polytheism, monotheism is likely to prevail, and one who comes to hold that many natural phenomena were created intentionally probably will come to believe in God.
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The religious root of universalism in American culture comes from Christian monotheism and Universalism.
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With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
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Buddhism, however, on the 'dispersive' view of the evolution of religion, is not the only radiation from the common centre, of which we have to take account, in addition to fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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Similarly, students could study, as part of their understanding of Western monotheism and Eastern pantheism and non-theism, different ideas about how the metaphysical acts upon and manifests in the physical.
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From early animism in its manifold expressions, through polytheism, kathenotheism, henotheism, to monotheism, and so out into loftier possibilities of conceiving the divine nature and purpose -- the main road which man has traveled in his religious development now is traceable.
Christianity and Progress
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There may be a Cupid like figure as well, but there is always a love goddess except in monotheisms.
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The phrase "axial age" has been used to describe the relatively brief period of time -- roughly 700 years -- when the great religions of the world arose: Hinduism and Buddhism in India; Confucianism and Taoism in China; and monotheism in the Middle East.
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Does your masonry promote multitheism or does it promote monotheism?
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The ideological clash between monotheism and polytheism furnishes the world with one of its first examples of asymmetrical warfare.
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Avraham was trying to start the spread of monotheism in place of polytheism.
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For it is clear from history that religion is liable to degenerate, and has in many instances degenerated instead of progressing; and even if it be impossible to prove conclusively that Monotheism was the primitive historical religion, there is nevertheless a good deal of positive evidence adducible in support of this contention.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Unlike most religions, it requires no one belief regarding the nature of God: it embraces polytheism, monotheism, and monism.
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However the overwhelming majority of classical Jewish thinkers in the past 500 years have categorically refused to choose between pantheism and monotheism.
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He wrote in favour of monotheism, belief in one God rather than many, using selected Hindu scriptures and Christian Unitarianism to support his case.
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Late antique Neoplatonism was essentially monotheism; Wicca is essentially duotheism.
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Elisha said a single word; the tolerance of high places, teraphim and betylia; the offering of incense for centuries to the brazen serpent destroyed by Hezekiah; the occasional glimpses of the most startling irregularities sanctioned apparently even in the temple worship itself, prove most decisively that a pure monotheism and an independence of symbols was the result of a slow and painful course of God's disciplinal dealings among the noblest thinkers of a single nation, and not, as is so constantly and erroneously urged, the instinct of the whole Semitic race; in other words, one single branch of the
Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
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When confronted with monotheism for the first time, polytheists and animists all over the world frequently reacted if their own accounts are to be believed with: Sure!
In the Valley of the Shadow
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In a contest with polytheism, monotheism is likely to prevail, and one who comes to hold that many natural phenomena were created intentionally probably will come to believe in God.
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The unequivocal monotheism of Islam served to unite all.
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All of this flows, according to Stark, directly from the inherent logic of monotheism.
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When newborn empires and monotheism end the era of tribal society, states come into being and become the supreme form of communities, ethnic groups and various religious ethical culture.
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Monotheism, the belief in the oneness of the Divine, can be deduced from different sources of inspiration, not merely the Bible or the Quran.
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Abraham tries to prevail over God in the merit of having brought monotheism to the world.
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The liberals also commonly assert that monotheism is a late evolutionary religious development.
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Why did that other poster think that Monotheism, pantheism and animism are exclusive to each other?
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Plenty of evidence indicates that in Paul's day Judaism with its monotheism and high ethical standards was an attractive religion to many non-Jews.
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Jerusalem is the common holy place of three kinds of monotheism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
