Tradition
Abrahamic religions
Overview
The Abrahamic religions are a set of monotheistic religions that respect or admire the religious figure Abraham as a patriarch and/or as a prophet, namely Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as smaller religions such as the Baháʼí Faith, the Druze faith, Rastafari, and Samaritanism, though the term may as well include religions such as Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism, Shabakism, although their status as Abrahamic religions are highly controversial and hotly debated because their doctrines set them significantly apart from other Abrahamic religions. The religions of this set share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrast them with Indian religions, Iranian religions, and East Asian religions, although some smaller Abrahamic religions, such as the Baha'i Faith, are also Iranian religions. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are the three largest Abrahamic religions, with Christianity and Islam being followed and adhered to by around half of the world's population. The term, introduced in the 20th century, replaced "Judeo-Christian" to include Islam as an Abrahamic religion and acknowledge differences between Judaism and Christianity, while the Baháʼí Faith, the Druze faith, Rastafari, and Samaritanism were recognized and classified as Abrahamic religions by a significant minority of scholars in the 20th century. However, the term has been criticized by some scholars for reportedly oversimplifying cultural and doctrinal nuances between the different religions.
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Christianity is called the religion of _pity._—Pity is opposed to the tonic passions which enhance the energy of the feeling of life: its action is depressing. A man loses power when he pities. By means of pity the drain on strength which suffering itself already introduces into the world is multiplied a thousandfold.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols
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1052. _The two types; Dionysus and Christ on the Cross._ We should ascertain whether the typically _religious_ man is a decadent phenomenon (the great innovators are one and all morbid and epileptic); but do not let us forget to include that type of the religious man who is _pagan._ Is the pagan cult not a form of gratitude for, and affirmation of, Life? Ought not its most representative type to be an apology and…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power
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The doctrines of religion are not a subject that one can be clever about, as one can about any other. Our culture is built up on them; the preservation of human society rests on the assumption that the majority of mankind believe in the truth of these doctrines. If they are taught that there is no almighty and all just God, no divine world order, and no future life, then they will feel exempt from all obligation to…
Sigmund Freud, The future of an illusion
States what Abrahamic religions is.
Philosophers who discussed Abrahamic religions
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mircea Eliade
- Mozi
- Christopher Hitchens
- Jews
- Jean Bodin
- Carl Schmitt
- Thiruvalluvar
- Islam
- Max Scheler
- God Is Not Great
Related ideas
- Simon & Schuster
- Globe Pequot Publishing Group
- Antisemitism
- Yale University Press
- Washington, D.C.
- Jesus
- Genesis creation narrative
- Gnosticism
- Harvard University Press
- Princeton University Press
- Gospel
- Book of Genesis
- Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
- Abraham
- Henotheism
- Council of Florence
- Indian religions
- Ireland
- Isaac
- Neologism
- Judaism
- Jacob
- Last Judgment
- Judeo-Christian
Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.