• Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity. A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence...
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    Moses and Monotheism (German: Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, lit. 'The man Moses and the monotheist religion') is a 1939 book about the...
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  • Babylonian captivity, eventually emerging as a firm religious movement of monotheism. With the Fall of Babylon, under influence of the Persian religion Zoroastrianism...
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    rituals. Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God who is, in most cases, transcendent. In...
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  • The People of Monotheism may translate several Arabic terms: Ahl al-Tawḥīd (Arabic: أهل التوحيد), a name the Druze use for themselves. Literally, "The...
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    God (redirect from God (monotheism))
    A deity, or "god" (with lowercase g), refers to a supernatural being. Monotheism is the belief that there is only one deity, referred to as ‘’God’’ (with...
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    comprises a wide range of beliefs about God and Divinity, such as henotheism, monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism, monism, agnosticism, atheism...
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    Tawhid (redirect from Islamic monotheism)
    تَوْحِيد‎, romanized: tawḥīd, lit. 'oneness [of God]') is the concept of monotheism in Islam. Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept...
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    periods of fidelity to Yahweh. Some scholars date the start of widespread monotheism to the 8th century BCE, and view it as a response to Neo-Assyrian aggression...
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  • Henotheism (category Monotheism)
    the word, and Friedrich Welcker (1784–1868) used it to depict primitive monotheism among ancient Greeks. Max Müller (1823–1900), a German philologist and...
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  • Criticism of monotheism has occurred throughout history. Critics have described monotheism as a cause of ignorance, oppression, and violence. David Hume...
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    Theism (section Monotheism)
    conception of God that is found in classical theism—or conception found in monotheism—or gods found in polytheistic religions—or a belief in God or gods without...
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  • Ethical monotheism is a form of exclusive monotheism in which God is believed to be the only god as well as the source for one's standards of morality...
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  • of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology. In monotheism, the single God is often also the creator. A number of monolatristic traditions...
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  • generic forms of monotheism (variously described as "gentile monotheism", "pagan monotheism", "Himyarite monotheism", "Arabian monotheism", "hanifism", "Rahmanism"...
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    al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة التوحيد والجهاد, lit. 'Congregation of Monotheism and Jihad'), abbreviated as JTJ or Jama'at, was a Salafi jihadist militant...
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    forms of persecution in the Netherlands. Judaism maintains a tradition of monotheism that excludes the possibility of a Trinity. In Judaism, God is understood...
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  • In the philosophy of religion and theology, post-monotheism (from Greek μόνος "one" and θεός "god," with the Latin prefix "post-" as in "after" or "beyond")...
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    "like the rest of the Zoroastrian texts, the Old Avesta does not teach monotheism". However Sayem describes Zoroastrianism as one of the oldest monotheistic...
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    patronized, and the religion he attempted to establish, foreshadowing monotheism. The future Akhenaten was born Amenhotep, a younger son of pharaoh Amenhotep...
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  • restrictions and of religion". Freud develops this idea further in Moses and Monotheism, his last book, discussed below. He further goes to attribute creation...
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    of monotheism has been noted by many scholars, including Jonathan Kirsch in his book God Against The Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and...
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  • sense of human lifetime and human fate, in polytheistic religions. In monotheism, Time can still be personified, like Father Time. Huh Hemsut Shai Ikenga...
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    exist, but that only one of these deities may be validly worshipped. Monotheism is the belief that only one deity exists.[excessive citations] A monotheistic...
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    by some accounts, Yahweh-centric monolatry) and transitioned towards monotheism, where Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator deity and the only entity...
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  • Monolatry (category Monotheism)
    perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen. Monolatry is distinguished from monotheism, which asserts the existence of only one god, and henotheism, a religious...
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    Monotheism and Justice Front: Supporters of the Government (Persian: جبههٔ توحید و عدالت - حامیان دولت) was an Iranian conservative electoral list for...
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    depicted religion as evolving with human culture, from polytheism to monotheism. The Religionsgeschichtliche Schule emerged at a time when scholarly study...
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  • God's holiness. Isaiah 44:6 contains the first clear statement of Yahwist monotheism: "I am the first and I am the last; beside me there is no God". In Isaiah...
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    known beyond Egyptology circles for his interpretation of the origins of monotheism, which he considers as a break from earlier cosmotheism, first with Atenism...
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