the belief or doctrine that there is only one God
Origin of monotheism
mono- + theism
noun
Monotheism is the belief in only one God.
An example of monotheism is the religion of Christianity.
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monotheism
noun
The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
Related Forms:
- mon′o·the′ist
noun
- mon′o·the·is′tic
adjective
- mon′o·the·is′ti·cal·ly
adverb
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Noun
(plural monotheisms)
Origin
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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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.
- 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.
- The goal is the vindication of Israel and of Israel's God, and the establishment of universal monotheism (ii.
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