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Introduction. Monotheism and Pluralism. “Everything that destroys social unity is useless.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau. “I came not to bring peace but division.” Jesus Christ. elligerent as “the One True God.” This monotheistic expression seems to capture the spirit of religious violence, if not the hea.
In this paper I assert that the monotheism of today emerged out of the fall of the Roman Empire, resembling its territorial expansion and need for political and social stability.
27 paź 2022 · The Christian Trinity is a diversified form of monotheistic faith, since the apostolic faith is rooted in the Old Testament confession, to which Jesus adhered: “the Lord our God, the Lord is...
Motivated in part by his interfaith work and by his own religious beliefs as a Latter-day Saint, Thomp-son wrote Trinity and Monotheism to “build bridges of understand-ing” among all who believe in Jesus Christ (9). This is a noble pursuit.
Self-conscious Israelite monotheism arose from the rejection of gods now identified as alien. It did not evolve from an absorption of powers by the high god, Yhwh, taken over from lesser beings -- although all unnatural agency is subordinated to his own agency.
Introduction: Monotheism and Pluralism. Introducing René Girard, Jan Assmann, and Chantal Mouffe Chapter Outline. Pluralism’s Requisite Intolerance. How Tolerance Contains Intolerance. Reason Is No Escape from Exclusion. Maintaining the Incompatibility through Refusing Illusions of Unity. Us versus Them.
to monotheism. So, in the history of religion, monotheism has two opponents: (I) polytheism proper, and ( 2) beliefs that recognize other more or less divine beings besides those that are properly to be called gods. In the history of philosophy, however, monotheism has a much narrower range of contrasting or opposing beliefs. Polytheism, as an
