monotheistic

Examples of monotheistic in the following topics:

• Theism and Monotheism

  • Christian, Islamic and Jewish religions are theisms that comprise the monotheistic tradition that believes that there is only one God in all creation.
  • When only one deity is recognized, the faith tradition is called monotheistic.
  • Typically, monotheistic traditions conceive of God as omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and active in governance and organization of the world and the universe.
  • The most prominent modern day monotheistic religions include Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
  • Create a short sketch in which a monotheist, a deist, a polytheist, and Emile Durkheim enter into a debate about their views on god(s)

• Spread of Islam

  • In the years following the Prophet Muhammad's death, the expansion of Islam was carried out by his successor caliphates, who increased the territory of the Islamic state and sought converts from both polytheistic and monotheistic religions.
  • One is animists and polytheists of tribal societies of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile crescent; the other is the monotheistic populations of the Middle Eastern agrarian and urbanized societies.
  • In contrast, for sedentary and often already monotheistic societies, "Islam was substituted for a Byzantine or Sassanian political identity and for a Christian, Jewish or Zoroastrian religious affiliation."

• Humans and Their Deities

  • Monotheistic deities are often thought of as being omnipresent though invisible.
  • This same concept is also present in monotheistic and henotheistic religions.The boundary between human and divine in most cultures is by no means absolute.
  • In some cases, especially in the monotheistic traditions, the divine is not thought of by many believers in the same terms as deities-- as a powerful, anthropomorphic supernatural being-- but rather becomes esoteric and ineffable-- the Ultimate, the Absolute Infinite, etc.

• Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

  • The most well-known monotheists were the Hebrews, although the Persians and the Medes had also developed monotheism.
  • Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions.
  • Before the rise of the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, most Bedouin tribes practiced polytheism in the form of animism and idolatry.

• Beliefs

  • In monotheistic faiths, like Abrahamic religions, references to God are often used in constructs such as "God's Chosen People. " By contrast, people with inclusivist beliefs recognize some truth in all faith systems, highlighting agreements and minimizing differences, but often see their own faith as in some way ultimate.

• Timeline

  • Akhenaton is sometimes credited with starting the earliest known monotheistic religion, which is believed to be the precursor of the monotheistic doctrines of the Abrahamic religions.

• Monotheism

  • Furthermore, in monotheistic religious art, God, or the Supreme Deity, is often presented with multiple forms or, in the Christian case, is understood to be part of a Divine Trinity.
  • Further, the ancient roots of monotheistic Judaism lie in the Bronze Age polytheistic Ancient Semitic religions.

• Magic and Supernaturalism

  • In pre-monotheistic religious traditions, there is no fundamental distinction between religious practice and magic; tutelary deities concerned with magic are sometimes called "hermetic deities" or "spirit guides. "

• The Cosmos

  • Although this section focuses on the religious cosmology of Buddhism and Judeo-Christianity, countless variations of religious cosmology exist, for both polytheistic and monotheistic traditions, as well as for pantheists.

• Quaker Liberty

  • The Charter of Privileges extended religious freedom to all monotheists, and government was initially open to all Christians.