monotheism
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- noun
- /ˈmɒnəˌθiːɪzəm/
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monoteísmo
- Christianity's appeal was strengthened when it dropped most of the ethnic practices required by Jewish monotheism.
- Jewish monotheism
- monotheism of Christianity
- monotheism of Islam
If you think in terms of traditional monotheism, you know, Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
- If you think in terms of traditional monotheism, you know, Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
- Maybe that's why I'm more sympathetic to polytheism than monotheism as well.
- So monotheism came forth through Judaism primarily.
- So like if we think about monotheism and it's it's developments.
- It spread down the Nile and later into the Semitic male monotheisms.
- OK and most importantly, listen to this because it comes back into monotheism.
- And so the curve starts moving down and the curve starts moving downwards from monotheism.
Examples
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God did not change over time, nor did the centrality of his message of monotheism change over time.
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A basic distinction that runs throughout Western monotheism is that God alone is infinite; all else is finite.
Academic text (1991) -
We must now jump back in time and discuss the spread of monotheism in the East.
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So monotheism came forth through Judaism primarily.
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Christians do and must, by virtue of their claims to monotheism, share Islam's vision of tawhid.
Academic text (2013) -
His religious customs are unfamiliar, yet he is no pagan: he addresses the One God of monotheism.
Academic text (1998) -
The first factor is Jewish monotheism: the earliest Christians were not Roman polytheists, but committed Jewish monotheists.
Academic text (2007) -
In their most energetic forms, monotheisms become utopian, portraying a single, absolute way to live.
Academic text (2008) -
It brought Judean religion closer to monotheism, because you have the insistence of worshipping one God in his one central sanctuary.
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all examples of monotheism, as they each believe in only one God.
Synonyms
A belief in Islam that God is one and only
Antonyms
How Many Gods
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monotheism comes from the Greek parts mono- meaning 'one' and theos meaning 'god'. So monotheism is the belief in a single God, and you can remember mono- from words like monarch which means 'one ruler' and theo- from theology which means 'study of God'.