Monotheism meaning

mŏnə-thē-ĭzəm
Monotheism is the belief in only one God.

An example of monotheism is the religion of Christianity.

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The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
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The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
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The belief or doctrine that there is only one God.
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Origin of monotheism

  • A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- +"Ž theism, from (μονός (monós, “one")) and (θεός (theós, “god, deity") + -ισμός (-ismos)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later). The earliest known use is by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism.

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Monotheism Sentence Examples

  • A rigid monotheism appeared to Plotinus a miserable conception.

  • The goal towards which these tendencies verged was monotheism; and though this goal was only once, and then quite ephemerally, reached, still the monotheistic idea was at most periods, so to speak, in the air.

  • Monotheism henceforth was to be the belief not of philosophers only but even of the ignorant, and in Jesus Christ the union of the divine and the human was effected.

  • Sufism (q.v.) appears in the 9th century among the Mahommedans of Persia as a kind of reaction against the rigid monotheism and formalism of Islam.

  • This explanation was the more urgent because under the influence of Jewish monotheism the rule of God was accepted as an undoubted presupposition, so that the death of Jesus must be in accordance with his will.

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