(n.) The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this examination no attempt will be made to evaluate Moses and Monotheism for its literary, psychohistorical, or scientific merit.
(2) Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on “graven images”.
(3) "But it builds something you can't respond to: ethics, decency, monotheism and justice," he added in a his speech, which was broadcast live on state TV.
(4) R is for religion "The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism.
(5) Focusing on the abortive subtitle, the core of the paper is a close examination of the original manuscript draft of Moses and Monotheism, completed in 1934.
(6) As the historian Jan Assmann puts it: “Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory.” In the Bible, Moses did not invent monotheism.
(7) Despite Freud's explicit statements on his intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism, there has been a growing tendency to interpret the work as a coded document of his inner life.
(8) Evidence is brough that it is his father, rather than himself, whom Freud identifies with the Moses figure - and the consequences of his identification are used to explain both his obsession with the Moses theme and his seeming digressions into Bible-analysis in "Moses and monotheism".
(9) As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the priviliege of monotheism.
(10) There is a wealth of information about Freud in Moses and Monotheism and no one paper will exhaust it.
(11) Freud's paper is re-examined and placed in biographical and historical context, Moses and monotheism (1934-1938) is treated as a parallel text.
(12) Many writers have commented on the lack of Freud's usual level of logic and powers of persuasion in Moses and Monotheism.
Monotheist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes that there is but one God.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once you accept this, it is quite easy for Hume to show why nothing in what we observe of the world justifies us reaching the conclusion that it was designed by anything like the God of the monotheist religions.
(2) Once any monotheistic religion is starting, feminism is finished.
(3) Yet the conversation Abdul was having with a Ted Cruz supporter named John about the parallels between the monotheistic religions was not what Trump rallies are typically about.
(4) Later this month, the president will visit the homes of the world’s three biggest monotheistic religions – Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome – on a tour billed as a new beginning in the struggle against extremism, before attending a Nato session in Brussels and a G7 summit in Sicily.
(5) We Christians, together with the other monotheistic religions, believe that the universe is the fruit of a loving decision by the Creator, who permits man respectfully to use creation for the good of his fellow men and for the glory of the Creator; he is not authorized to abuse it, much less to destroy it,” he said.
(6) It was necessary to prepare a sound programme in which the muhajireen might take refuge as their jihad is the result of the glory to Islam and the monotheists.
(7) They are not Christians, they are Yazidis, an ethnically Kurdish people who follow a monotheistic religion all its own.
(8) There could be no bigger deal than to somehow bring together the world’s three great monotheistic religions – and, while he is in the region, slicing through the knots of the 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the same time, which he said on Wednesday “ may be not as difficult as people have thought over the years ”.
(9) And the story of Moses has a strange echo in the life of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, the first monotheist known to history.