monotheism
IPA: mˈɑnʌθiɪzʌm
noun
- (obsolete) Belief in the One True God, defined by Moore as personal, immaterial and trinitarian.
- The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
- The belief that God is one person (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), not three persons (Trinitarianism, Hinduism)
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Examples of "monotheism" in Sentences
- Religious zealots associated with monotheism is the scourge that should be eliminated. arc, Lugano CH
- But, I argued, their solution needs modification, because their identification of religion with monotheism is naïve.
- Your monotheism is solely ethnocentrism and your insistance on closing your mind to the infinate realm of possibilities that truely exist.
- 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.
- Not just not-monotheism, because that assumes that monotheism is the default, the standard, and I believe that polytheism is the logical choice of standard if one should exist at all.
- 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.
- For all that the tradition of argument within monotheism is a long and noble one, for all that the emphasis on wisdom, justice and mercy is there, I think this lynchpin of monotheism -- this idea of a supreme moral authority, a God who makes the law, who owns the law, whose law is defined in terms of sin, dictated to us through scripture, and derived from faith -- this is the keystone of that rival tradition, I think.
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