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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Avraham was trying to start the spread of monotheism in place of polytheism. |
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We brought monotheism to a pagan world, and guaranteed women's rights in marriage. |
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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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Abraham tries to prevail over God in the merit of having brought monotheism to the world. |
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Once the option for religion has been made, the only serious alternatives are pantheism and monotheism. |
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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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Paul's monotheism, which included the view that God controlled everything that happened, was braver than that. |
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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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All of this flows, according to Stark, directly from the inherent logic of monotheism. |
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The liberals also commonly assert that monotheism is a late evolutionary religious development. |
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I operate a religious website that promotes tolerant monotheism and I can't believe the volume of hate mail I get. |
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Hopefully you can see that these cults were an amalgamation of Hebrew monotheism and Egyptian and Sumerian polytheism. |
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If this step from monotheism to monism goes too far, in what ways can Judaism respond to a postmodern desire for Oneness? |
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Jordan requested more information on the way in which it has proceeded to guarantee monotheism and freedom of expression. |
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Between the extremes of exclusive monotheism and unlimited polytheism are the middle positions of inclusive monotheism and henotheism. |
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Propositionally, we’ve demonstrated that monotheism is more credible than polytheism, and that supernaturalism is more likely than mere naturalism. |
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Unlike animism or polytheism, monotheism is a reasonable proposition. |
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A perennial problem for monotheism has been the reconciliation of the sovereignty of a good God with the existence of natural evil. |
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It excludes dualism, trinitarian monotheism and all the pantheistic forms of monism. |
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And my early religiousness gradually developed into monotheism. |
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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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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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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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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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Does your masonry promote multitheism or does it promote monotheism? |
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This monotheism, this religion of the one, of course has universal appeal. |
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Pantheism can no more account for any decadence than monotheism. |
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Therefore, we emphasize that the only path to continued safety and security is to return to monotheism and justice. |
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They believed that Trinitarian teaching was unscriptural and that monotheism could best be protected if Christ were not defined as an equal member of the Godhead. |
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Like two thousand years ago when they crucified Christ, both of these forces are at work in the world today: universal monotheism and quasi-polytheistic tribalism on the one hand, and particularist monotheism on the other. |
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These lessons came to guide the religious life of Jewry during the Second Temple period when monotheism prevailed among the people after a long struggle of the prophets with polytheistic idolatry. |
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In Western monotheism, especially the monotheisms of the Abrahamic tradition, God is conceived to be both the creator and sustainer of all that exists. |
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In any case, in the mind of some of those who promote the multiverse, new cosmology seems to be more sympathetic with polytheism than with monotheism. |
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In professing the doctrine of divine immanence in the created world, however, the Kabbalah fearlessly contradicts the very principles of monotheism. |
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This term has recently been championed by Japanese essayists on the same grounds as polytheism, in opposition to the overweening supremacy of Western monotheism. |
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Djibouti accepts the practice of monotheism. Any attempt to denigrate a religion is regarded as blasphemous and is punishable by the Djiboutian justice system. |
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Critics point out that if 'familial unity' is all there is to trinitarian oneness, and so all that is required for monotheism, then it is hard to see why various polytheistic systems fail to count as versions of monotheism. |
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The choice of either monotheism or polytheism, however, leads to problems, because neither can give a satisfactory answer to all questions that may reasonably be put. |
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Akhenaten, who tried to impose monotheism with the worship of Aten, the sun disc, later fathered the famed boy king Tutankhamun. |
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A broadminded exponent of monotheism would be capable of recognizing, even in the pagan cults against which Judaism fought, an imperfect, unconscious aspiration toward the one living God. |
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The sun deity Shamash was worshiped at Hatra and elsewhere, but the henotheism of the ancient Middle East was giving way to acceptance of universalist religions, if the prevalent view cannot yet be called one of monotheism. |
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Egyptian religion is of special interest with regard to the various topics treated in this article, for in it are found polytheism, henotheism, pluriform monotheism, trinitarian speculations, and even a kind of monotheism. |
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Japanese supernature, imported into contemporary America with animated cartoons, video games, and Yu-Gi-Oh cards, is luxuriant, lighthearted, and, by the standards of monotheism, undisciplined. |
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The first historically attested expression of monotheism came during this period as Atenism. |
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Russians liked things mystical, and they didn't like being told what to do. As well as giving an elegant summary of modern thinking about religion, Mr Wade also offers a brief, provocative history of monotheism. |
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But behind the question was that recurring dilemma in monotheism. |
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Among the theological questions that deserve to be studied again, a particular interest should be consecrated to monotheism, to revelation and to salvation in Christ. |
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Encouraging division around two monotheistic political ideas, the monotheism of the market and the monotheism of the State, does no service to Europe. |
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The Mediterranean has been the cradle of civilization and of monotheism, that monotheism, in a sense, that I define as the mean through which ethnic conflicts have been overcome. |
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By contrast, in his The Natural History of Religion, Hume presented arguments suggesting that polytheism had much to commend it over monotheism. |
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The Himyarites rejected polytheism and adhered to a consensual form of monotheism called Rahmanism. |
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Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. |
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Many other Hindus, however, view polytheism as far preferable to monotheism. |
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In the process, he further traced the condition of theophobia to a strict interpretation of monotheism. |
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It wants you to nurture the humus that sustains its great variety, not place before it the monochromatic monoculturalism of a political monotheism. |
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Hinduism is a diverse system of thought with beliefs spanning monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism, monism, and atheism among others. |
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Ethical monotheism is central in all sacred or normative texts of Judaism. |
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While duotheism or bitheism is traditional in Wicca, broader Wiccan beliefs range from polytheism to pantheism or monism, even to Goddess monotheism. |
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