If unwittingly I have offended against good usage and morality, which constitute the true essence of all monotheistic religions, may God and men forgive me.
Right here his monotheistic convictions force him into direct opposition to the Greek as well as to the Arabic philosophers.
Hebrew poetry attained to neither dramatic nor epic creations, because the all-pervading monotheistic principle of the nation paralyzed the free and easy marshalling of gods and heroes of the Greek drama.
Thus far the Athanasian Creed might be a chapter of the Todtenbuch, and it is very evident where the Alexandrian saint got those subtle metaphysical ideas, which are so opposed to the rigid monotheistic creeds of Judaism and Mahometanism.
Accordingly, the dogmas of Christian philosophy theoretically contain the monotheistic cosmology, and practically the rules for a holy life, which appears as a renunciation of the world and as a new order of society.
This conception is really not peculiar to the Apologists: in the second century the great majority of Christians, in so far as they reflected at all, regarded the monotheistic explanation of the world as a main part of the Christian religion.
The initiative for the passage to the Monotheistic period came from Judaea, and Comte attempts to show that this could not have been otherwise.
Whilst at times a truly monotheistic fervour manifests itself in the adoration of these two gods, the polytheistic instincts of the people did not fail to extend the pantheon by groups of new deities in connexion with them.
Under Ferdinand and Isabella the Inquisition seems to have struck mainly at Judaic and Moorish monotheistic heresy, which was not uncommon among the upper classes, while the lower were for the most part orthodox (Armstrong, Introd.
This tabu, like the monotheistic idea, was itself the outcome of political and social causation, which is in large part traceable and readily intelligible.
It was against this use of idolatrous symbols and emblems in a monotheistic worship that the second commandment was directed, whereas the first is aimed against the graver sin of direct polytheism.
It will however be wrong to suppose that these monotheistic tendencies were gradually supplanting the polytheistic sacrifices.
The tendency towards extreme exaggeration could be called a monotheistic bias in germ, whereas the correlation of different deities as independent of one another and yet existing side by side was a tendency towards polytheism.
It also lessened the importance of deities as being the supreme masters of the world and our fate, and the tendency of henotheism gradually diminished their multiple character and advanced the monotheistic tendency in some quarters.
At this stage the time was not ripe enough for them to accord a consistent and well-defined existence to the multitude of gods nor to universalize them in a monotheistic creed.
The extraordinarily active zeal with which the clergy of monotheistic religions attack suicide is not supported either by the Bible or by any valid reasons; so it looks as if their zeal must be instigated by some secret motive.
On the contrary, their purpose was to purify the faith by freeing it from such elements as obscured in their minds the purity of the monotheistic tenet and the justice of God.
Mohammedanism is as a religion Monotheistic and we know that Mohammed was indebted very much to Jews and Judaism.
The tendency towards a comprehension of the unity of the divine essence had resulted in some minds, as has been remarked before, in a kind of monotheistic notion of the origin of the universe.
It is this immediateness of impulse under which the human mind in its infancy strives to give utterance to its emotions that imparts to many of its outpourings the ring of monotheistic fervour.
The desert tends to inspire monotheistic ideas and conceptions; lands of varied aspect, such as Greece or Palestine, inspire polytheistic conceptions--divided power rather than unity.
Way back in the Fifth dynasty we find the beginnings of a monotheistic tendency in the religion of Egypt.
Hilprecht however declares that the monotheistic faith of Israel could never have proceeded "from the Babylonian mountain of gods--that charnel-house full of corruption and dead men's bones.
Other texts are known wherein Ra, Osiris, Amon, and all other gods disappear, except as simple names, and the unity of God is asserted in the noblest language of monotheistic religion.
He who believes that God revealed himself to primitive man as one God, will see in the Akkadian story a polytheistic corruption of the original monotheistic account.
On every side, in fact, an energetic tendency was manifested towards a monotheistic religion, which should provide divine command as a foundation of morality.
The rigorous measures which were put in force against the worship of Serapis, were perhaps suggested by the monotheistic character[18.
A vast monotheisticand Mosaic propaganda was organized,[16.
It appears, then, that no established legislation prohibited in the apostolic age the profession of monotheistic creeds.
There certainly is no evidence that either the Babylonian or the Egyptian monotheistic tendencies influenced in any direct way the development of Israel's religion.
It is seen, then, that monotheistic tendencies are not absent from the Babylonian religion.
No one can read with an unbiased mind the two accounts without realizing the great differences between the mythological, polytheistic account of the Babylonians and the simple, solemn, sublime, monotheistic picture in Genesis.
The above origins of idolatry and mythology, as stated or implied in the Bible, of course assume that the Semitic monotheistic religion is the primitive one.
It is possible, however, that this was among the early Chaldeans an exoteric representation for the vulgar, and that the priestly caste may have understood it in a monotheistic sense.
Astrological divination is an outgrowth of the Sabaean idolatry, and held in abomination by the monotheistic author of Genesis.
They also explain the recognition by Abraham, as co-religionists, of such monotheistic personages as Melchisedec, king of Salem.
This shows that two accounts of the Hebrew creation, the one monotheistic and the other polytheistic, have become fused together.
Yet did this monotheistic religion retain many of the forms and rites of other cults, paradoxical as this must have appeared.
The existence of Baal as an element in names seems to indicate the incompleteness of the emancipation from idolatry in Saul's time, and the change will then indicate the keener monotheistic conscience of later days.
Delitzsch, Jeremias (Monotheistische Stromungen) and Baentsch, that monotheistic tendencies are to be found in the midst of Babylonian polytheism.
But in Judaism monotheistic conceptions reigned supreme, and the Satan of Jewish belief as opposed to God stops short of the dualism of Persian religion.
The ancient Babylonian psalms clearly reveal that the highest minds were moving out of polytheism to a monotheistic identification of various deities as diverse phases of one underlying essence.
There are indeed abundant indications that prove that in the prevalent popular religion of the regal periodmonotheistic conceptions had no place.
For this reason monotheistic religions would be severely antagonistic to the arts, and such is in fact the case.
Adoption of foreign religions On the whole the religion of the Lalbegis appears to be monotheistic and of a sufficiently elevated character, resembling that of the Kabirpanthis and other reforming sects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monotheistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
