Sentences with phrase «of monotheistic»

His latest exhibition is a touching revival of late medieval narrative painting and an homage to the lasting vitality of pagan elements that have survived not only the advent of monotheistic religions but also modernity.

The Kaaba (literally «the cube» in Arabic) is an ancient stone structure that was built and re-built by prophets as a house of monotheistic worship.

Think of the origins of the monotheistic religions.

I will say, though, that you appear to exhibiting yet another fundamental misunderstanding, this time about the concept of a monotheistic God.

«Ontologically all monotheists affirm that there can only be one divine being, and it seems logical to me that there must be some referential overlap or similarity in the divine being that each is referring to in each of the monotheistic religions,» said Jones, according to a transcript posted by The Wheaton Record.

The full flower of the monotheistic development in the Old Testament, therefore, came from the Exile and from the influences which that disastrous experience released.

«Deutero - Isaiah,» says H. W. Robinson, «drops the keystone of the monotheistic arch into its place.»

An adherent of a polytheistic religion in antiquity, especially when viewed in contrast to an adherent of a monotheistic religion.

It is not hard to find examples of monotheistic theologians against whom this charge could be leveled quite convincingly.

Let us note that at the heart of a monotheistic religion, and perhaps of other religions as well, lies a «presence» that can not be subsumed under the category of sin.

This is hard to believe when Abraham (the father of the monotheistic faiths) says «I have sworn to the LORD God Most High, maker of heaven and earth.»

But although the God of Israel was identified with the one God of all monotheistic religions, divine self - revelation through the history and experience of the Jewish people had given this God, as we have just noted, a special quality.

In one of the hymns he assumes almost the character of a monotheistic creator god.

And this is what I shall now proceed to do, arguing that this idea is incoherent, actually unethical, and not at all a translation of the essence of monotheistic tradition as some tend to claim.

If strong images of God impassion evangelizers and attract converts today, Stark reasons, such images should also explain the historical appeal of monotheistic faiths.

Sadly, this is the future of the monotheistic argument.

The proof of panthrotheistic was the establishment of the monotheistic religion, Jesus Christ was the God whose religion had convinced the roman emperor to decree that the Roman Empire had to adapt Christianity as it's official religion, paving the way for science to grow or proliferate and in the church era, because of the fast growth of science in the Christian world.But we are now at the crossroad of change, Christian doctrine is now in conflict with modern science, so it has to evolve to panthrotheism, the future religion

The Theosophies of se - x-ualism around «Monotheistic» religiosities is likened to non-social falacies of lewed and lascivious «Behaviourisms» unbecoming moral interpretations by godheads of secular revulsionisms be they of monotheistic congruencies.

True... a majority of the monotheistic religions (christianity, Islam, Judaism) are * especially * intolerant.

The B'Hai faith tries to reconcile all of the monotheistic religions by saying that God reveals Himself periodically through various prophets, of which Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad are but examples.

Not exact matches

If you want to see a cool infographic showing the changes in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors over the years and how it has evolved from a multi-faceted and diverse organization to one that is very monolithic, monotheistic and dominated by academics, check this out: http://goo.gl/eCKVrS.

In short, the major stories of the Bible may simply be the monotheistic versions of popular ancient myths.

This is obviously impossible — particularly as most of them require (d) monotheistic devotion!!

When polytheistic Egyptian subjects in Canaan wrote for help against a marauding band of Semites, the monotheistic Egyptian Pharaoh ignored their requests.

There are also plenty of examples of people without a monotheistic religion that live or have lived peacefully in accordance with their own morals.

It contains reference to the sacred character of the area as the homeland of the three monotheistic religions and, more important, its guiding motif is the search for justice, a category not without theological roots.

varying only in terms of the moral quality of their ethical practices, in the rabbinic view the non-Jewish world was now rent in two: one part idolatrous; the other part monotheistic.

OK, I am out of touch, but I am at a loss to define one monotheistic religion that describes the creator as being female.

Monotheistic is what the gestations of ungodly and godless unwittingly portend they themself to be.

Christianity is «intolerant» in the sense that (like its monotheistic relatives, Judaism and Islam) it claims to possess a universal truth superior to the teachings of other religions; and it has spread this doctrine with a missionary zeal perhaps exceeding even Islam's.

I believe the point of the signs was to tell to those people without belief in those predominantly monotheistic communities that they are not alone.

period end of all discussions, in addition to being the first monotheistic religion 1000 years earlier than Christianity and 1500 years earlier than islam hence the word new testimit because it came after the old testimit by 1000 years.

Religions, at least the western monotheistic religions, are engines of intolerance.

Religious faith seems such a distorter of experience, such an encourager of illusion, that polytheistic paganism's admission of many divine stories seems better than monotheistic Christianity's insistence on a single story.

Anybody who can worship a trinity and insist that their religion is monotheistic is capable of believing anything given the time to rationalize it.

Here too the issue is religious: a radical contrast is made between a monotheistic creation and a polytheistic cosmogony («birth of the cosmos»).

The evidence, and lack of evidence, weighs very heavily against religion — especially the western monotheistic religions.

Furthermore, the story reminds us that people who worshiped the one monotheistic god of Abraham (Christians, Jews and Muslims alike) were all considered societal outcasts in 7th century Arabia.

The Palestinian / Israeli impasse is easily the most serious conflict in the world today and it is being continually exacerbated by the fundamentalists of all three monotheistic faiths.

Indeed, theologians of every radically monotheistic religion realize that its fundamental commitment to God demands that we express that theistic belief in ways that will render it public not merely to ourselves or our particular religious group.

Any radically monotheistic understanding of the reality of God (whether classical, process, liberationist or liberal) affirms the strict universality of the divine reality.

It is in these verses that one discovers the apparent monotheistic belief of Zoroaster who seems to have reacted vigorously against the polytheism of his day.

This would seem to be a theological endorsement of the moral values of Judaism, but not of its historical truth or monotheistic belief.

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Thirdly, Eliade observes that theological study seeks to study selected data from monotheistic religions rather than from the so - called primitive materials and, moreover, secondary importance is accorded to religions of the Mediterranean world.

The apologists saw Christianity as the fulfillment of the best of Hellenistic monotheistic philosophy, and not infrequently boasted about the superiority of Christianity as a religion and an ethic.

Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Baha'i, Jainists, Gnostics, Vajrayanists, Seicho - no - Ieinists, Cheondoists, and Tenrikyoists are but a few example of other believers with perfectly legitimate «proper» monotheistic theologies.

In his two most recent historical analyses, One True God (2001) and For the Glory of God (2003), Stark argues that monotheistic belief not only shaped Western history but also cultivated and in some cases gave birth to values that changed the world for the better.

And yet this dead revolutionary inspired monotheistic Jews to believe that he was God and worthy of worship - so much so that they were willing to die for a historical fact that would have been easy to disprove (note that Crossan needs the dogs to leave no evidence of the body as well).

Christianity is a dialectically monotheistic faith in which the nature and purposes of the Ultimate are illumined by historical events culminating, though by no means terminating, in the life, death and resurrection of the Jewish teacher Jesus, called by faith the Christ.