Concept
Monotheism
Overview
belief that there is only one god
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Religion alone was conceived as a phenomenon which was, on the one hand, independent of the limits of a single people, and yet, on the other, subject, in its development, to law. The idea that Christianity was destined to be a world religion, together with the fact that it had originated historically and had spread widely, did not admit of any other interpretation.
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Monotheism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophy, though as yet necessarily restricted to the metaphysical stage, yet already stood forward as the rival of the sacerdotal system. Its attempts to construct were in themselves fruitless; but they overthrew Polytheism, and ultimately transformed it into Monotheism. In this the last phase of theology, the intellectual authority of the priests was undermined no less deeply than the principle of their doctrine.
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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412, extols the extraordinary tolerance of the Buddhists, and adds his assurance that the annals of Buddhism furnish fewer examples of religious persecution than those of any other religion. As a matter of fact, intolerance is only essential to monotheism: an only god is by his nature a jealous god, who cannot permit any other god to exist. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are by their nature tolerant: they live…
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays of Schopenhauer
Names Monotheism.
Philosophers who discussed Monotheism
- Gershom Scholem
- Auguste Comte
- Mircea Eliade
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Max Weber
- Mozi
- Xenophanes
- J. L. Mackie
- Emil Cioran
- Jews
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- H. H. Price
- Islam
- David Hume
- Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri
Related ideas
- Arjuna
- Avatar
- Belief
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Deva (Hinduism)
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- Yale University Press
- Jesus
- Turkey
- Anaximander
- Ishvara
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Gnosticism
- Arianism
- Gnosis
- Post-classical history
- Auguste Comte
- Hinduism
- Dualism in cosmology
- Heraclitus
- Abrahamic religions
- Animism
- Andrew Lang
- Henotheism
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- Addis Ababa
- Akhenaten
- Andrew Lang
- Book of Joshua
- Bábism
- Jamaica
- Lewiston, New York
- New religious movement
- Nicaea
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Sudan
- Veneration
- World History Encyclopedia
- Atenism
- Robert Scott (philologist)
- Torah in Islam
- Amarna
- Book of Hosea
- Psalms in Islam
- Subordinationism
- Universal monarchy
- Roger E. Olson
- Yerevan