Of all Christian dogmas none were so offensive to the Moslems as that of the Trinity which to their barren monotheism necessarily appeared as Tritheism, and none were the subject of so much scorn as the idea that God should have a son.
He would even have been prepared to subscribe to the Monotheism of the church, had he not been hindered by the opposition between the Old Testament and the New.
Monotheism and sensual Endæmonism drawn from Judaism, Christianity and Arabian paganism.
On this line Jeremiah’s monotheism marks a notable advance; for alongside of faith in the Divine Unity and Sovereignty there had lingered even in Deuteronomy a belief in the existence of other gods.
Though slightly tinged with popular conceptions of the existence of other gods,(266) the monotheism of the Book is strenuously moral and warmly spiritual.
I find the following sentence in the manuscripts which he has shown me: "The general impression of all the most distinguished mythologists of the present day is, thatmonotheism is at the foundation of all pagan mythology.
The monotheism of the moderns does not proceed historically from paganism; it was prepared by the ancient philosophy, without being produced by it.
A forgotten, and as it were slumbering, monotheism exists beneath the worship of idols; it is the concealed trunk which supports them, but the idols have absorbed all the sap.
The proposition of the historical priority of monotheism is very important, and is not universally admitted.
Do the traces of a comparatively pure monotheismfirst show themselves in the most recent periods of idolatry?
Zoroastrian Monotheism only came in with Darius Hystaspes, the founder of the purely Persian second dynasty, after that of Cyrus became extinct with his son Cambyses.
The monotheism here expressed was not of the intolerant kind which prevailed in Israel, and which ultimately put down the worship of all rival deities.
Such an intolerant monotheism was introduced into Egypt by Amenophis IV (see Part I, p.
The founder of this religion taught as pure monotheism as was taught by Mohammed.
At that time the Jews and Christians had scattered the ideas of monotheism among the Arabs.
But later this doctrine of monotheism became dualism, i.
They were but expressions of that monotheism which is ever present, "not in contrast to polytheism, but in living intuition in the religious sentiments.
Of monotheism either as displayed in the one personal definite God of the Semitic races, or in the dim pantheistic sense of the Brahmins, there was not a single instance on the American continent.
It rightly passes on to a concrete monotheism (God is many in one; Christianity).
From the dim background of a noble monotheism the ancient gods came forth to represent on earth a majesty above their own.
Their imposing monotheism he fully appreciated, but the person of the Lord was surely a minor question.
It would seem as if dualism and monotheism had almost met here to form a third condition of godhead.
Monotheism is a religious condition so rare that it may be altogether discounted in classifying primitive religion.
The same opinion was held years ago by Julius Oppert, the Assyriologist, who was led to a belief in "a universal primitive monotheism as the basis of all religions.
Christian religion and its monotheism are not only not a development from lower origins, but that the heathen religions, historically considered, are a degeneracy from a higher knowledge of God.
For this fundamental principle of Jesus Jewish monotheismhas been substituted.
Monotheism is strictly inconsistent with the supremacy of "merits" which is the very soul of Oriental religion.
In the rigid development of monotheism all of these beings were necessarily regarded as agents of Jahveh--monopolist of all powers.
Consequently," I say, because such monotheism as existed had necessarily to explain the innumerable minor deities as emanations from, or manifestations of the supreme God.
For the long tradition of nearly two thousand years, which has made monotheism to us almost as fixed an assumption as that of our own individuality, was entirely wanting in this case.
His aim, in short, was to restore the primitive monotheism taught by the Prophet and to purge Islam of the heresies and corruptions which threatened to destroy it.
Perhaps the great thinkers, whose influence can be traced in the tendencies towards monotheism which became marked at various periods, believed in a Heaven for the just and good.
The tendency to monotheism appears to have been most marked among the priestly theorists of Babylon.
A profession ofmonotheism arrayed with such facts bespeaks folly supreme.
He was a monotheist, but his monotheism was pantheism.
But monotheism was lost sight of in Egypt at an earlier period than the beginning of authentic history.
The oldest religion of which we have clear and authentic account is probably the pure monotheism held by the Jews.
There was thus a tendency either toward monotheism or else toward some sort of materialistic monism.
But in the intensity of his monotheism Paul was not different from his countrymen.
But the wonder of the historian reaches its climax when he remembers that Paul was not a polytheist or a pantheist, but a Jew, to whom monotheism was the very breath of life.
They are rendered improbable, for example, by the sturdy monotheism of the Christian communities.
It is very difficult to see how in an atmosphere of such monotheism the influence of the pagan cults could have been allowed to intrude.
That monotheism was not at all impaired by the honor which was paid to Jesus; the Christian communities were just as intolerant of other gods as had been the ancient Hebrew prophets.
He holds that Polytheism gives place to Monotheism and Pantheism, and these again to Atheism.
In '65 he wrote some remarkable articles on Monotheismin Le Candide.
He denied alike Monotheism and Pantheism, but taught the natural immortality of the soul.
But it was a singularly impersonal monotheism and had little to do with popular religion, being regarded as the prerogative and special cult of the Emperor.
This monotheism common to the ancient Chinese, Turks and Mongols did not of course exclude the worship of spirits.
An exception must be made in favour of Persia, where the original monotheismwas preserved with more or less corruption.
The austere monotheism of Mohammed was preached in all its uncompromising simplicity, and the Koran, literally interpreted, was taken as the sole guide for human action.
The austere monotheism of Mohammed had become overlaid with a rank growth of superstition and puerile mysticism.
The most extreme example of this was in Persia, where the austere monotheism of Mohammed was transmuted into the elaborate mystical cult known as Shiism, which presently cut the Persians off from full communion with the orthodox Moslem world.
The same sharp contrast of Jewish ethical and spiritual monotheism remained also when it came in contact with the Graeco-Syrian and Roman culture.
Just as day and night form a natural contrast, divinely ordained, so do the monotheism of Israel and the polytheism of the nations constitute a spiritual contrast which can never be reconciled.
On the contrary, the rabbis single out Abraham as the missionary, the herald of monotheism in its march to world-conquest.
In this light Jewish monotheism appears as the ripe fruitage of religion in its universal as well as its primitive form of God-consciousness, as the highest attainment of man in his eternal seeking after God.
This breach in pure monotheism opened the door for the whole heathen mythology and the worship of the heathen deities in a new form.
When it was applied to God, however, it was generally understood as a unity, referring to one undivided Godhead, for Scripture regarded monotheism as original with mankind.
All the more forcibly does Jewish monotheism insist upon its doctrine that God, in His continual self-revelation, is the supermundane and self-conscious Ruler of both nature and history.
Meanwhile the relapse of Christianity frommonotheism became more steady and more apparent.
And Monotheism was the necessary basis of that still wider society which binds men to each other simply as men, and apart from any special ties of blood or language.
The natural result of such a religion was, therefore, to discourage the altruistic affections, and, indeed, Monotheism has systematically denied that such affections form part of the nature of man.
In a word the reasoned monotheism of the Greeks, originating, as far as we are concerned, with Plato, afforded a dialectic basis for the naive monotheism of the Hebrews.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monotheism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anthropomorphism; dualism; monotheism; pantheism; polytheism; theism
