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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.
Michael Rea and others have argued that the Trinitarian views of the fourth century Cappadocian fathers (Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregary Nazianzus) which played a central role in the later development of Eastern Orthodox theology were not all that dissimilar to Augustine's.
But the ideal of monotheism, monotheism as a form of distinctive identification, seems to arise principally in anticipation of pre-Socratic controversies about the identity of the one and the many, already in 7th-century works -- precisely the era of Judah's Reformation.
The present chapter will first briefly set forth some of the main stages in the emergence and evolution of monotheism in ancient religious history and discuss the origins of the modern concept of monotheism.
monotheism in theory and then examine how it shapes, informs, motivates, and characterizes ethical attitudes and practices in discrete traditions and communities. William Scott Green reviews the...
JISMOR 9 Questions about Monotheism in Ancient Israel: Between Archaeology and Texts Elizabeth Bloch-Smith Abstract Archaeologists offer different perspectives and new and multiple types of evidence to the discussion of emerging monotheism in late eighth to sixth century B.C.E. Israel.
31 gru 2004 · Monotheism is a general term for religions that confess to and worship only one god. “One God!” (Heis Tbeos) or “No other gods!” (first commandment)—these are the central mottos of monotheism.
