How To Use Polytheism In A Sentence
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When his followers are resistant to his demand to abandon polytheism and worship one God instead, he resorts to the cave where the angel has spoken to him before.
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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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He purges them of all traces of polytheism, idol worship and superstition and all that is associated with these rituals, habits and traditions which are unworthy of man.
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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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To have your ultimate concern distributed in different directions is like polytheism - worship of many divinities.
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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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This concession to polytheism greatly pleased the pagans, and when Muhammad reached the last verse of the Sura, they joined in the prostration enjoined there.
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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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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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Students were assigned to three distinctive world views: monotheism, polytheism, and atheism.
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Atheism, skepticism, polytheism, materialism, pantheism, and impersonalism are by their nature contrary to love.
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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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a feeble polytheism -- a kind of demonolatry; for, as good spirits do not injure one, one's whole time is given to the propitiation of the evil.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
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Naturally, he regarded the pagan Platonists as mistaken in accepting polytheism, everlasting world-cycles, and the transmigration of souls.
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While insisting that he is profoundly anticlerical and anti-ecclesiastical, Rorty envisions a future America with quasi-churches serving a national religion of romantic polytheism.
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Similarly, it knows nothing of ancestor worship, polytheism, diviners or demons, all of which are attested to in various forms in earlier Israelite popular religion.
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The Jews were called to reject polytheism and worship the one God, the Creator, whose will is revealed in the Torah, which comprises the first five books of the Bible (also known as the Pentateuch) and which contains the Ten Commandments.
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Others may note their own comfort and embrace of ambiguity and polytheism ( many gods ).
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In many circles of the Qawwal, tribute is paid to the mystic in words that entail transgression in terms of polytheism.
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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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A new word such as polyformism may have to be coined, or an older word polymorphism may have to be invoked, to be set beside polytheism, to provide the corrective.
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I am persuaded a more powerful impulse to polytheism arises from the co-action of two natural principles in the absence of a knowledge of God in Christ.
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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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What features in this world would make you accept the following: a) polytheism, b) ditheism, c) monotheism?
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Though far from a scientific conception of natural law, many men had become sufficiently monistic in their philosophy to see in the current hagiolatry a sort of polytheism.
The Age of the Reformation
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If used to designate eternal distinctions in God, it leads to tritheism, which is a form of polytheism.
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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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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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Roy used the philosophical ideas found in the earliest Hindu scriptures to criticize the polytheism and some of the practices of popular Hinduism, such as sati.
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Demeter, the type of the earth, or to Mithras, the symbol of all that fructifies that earth, -- the great object and design of the secret instruction were identical in all places, and the Mysteries constituted a school of religion in which the errors and absurdities of polytheism were revealed to the initiated.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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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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As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism.
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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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To have your ultimate concern distributed in different directions is like polytheism - worship of many divinities.
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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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The ideological clash between monotheism and polytheism furnishes the world with one of its first examples of asymmetrical warfare.
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In order to fend off any reminiscences of pagan polytheism, Philoponus points out that unlike the individually differentiated gods of the pagans the three divinities of the Trinity are all of the same, single divine nature in the universal sense of ˜nature™.
John Philoponus
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Galilee with theriomorphic polytheism, that is, the tendency to embody the qualities of divinity in animal forms.
The Ancient East
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As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism.
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Avraham was trying to start the spread of monotheism in place of polytheism.
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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 latter believed in caste system and untouchability, polytheism, idolatry, etc.
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This I suppose is fine if you are a follower, but contrast Polytheism to our government and you have a better match.
Are we a Christian Nation?
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[FN#57] There is a play upon words in this line, founded upon the double meaning of the word shirk, sharing (or partnership) and polytheism or the attributing partners or equals to God (as in the Trinity), the one unpardonable sin of the Muslim religious code.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
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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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But Mahayanism was pulled equally strongly in the opposite direction by the popular and mythological elements which it contained and was on the whole inclined to theism and even polytheism quite as much as to atheism and acosmism.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
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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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Naturally, he regarded the pagan Platonists as mistaken in accepting polytheism, everlasting world-cycles, and the transmigration of souls.
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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.
