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Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Polytheism and monotheism.-pt. II. Christianity written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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Download or read book Polytheism and monotheism written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Trigg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108787673
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Monotheism and Religious Diversity written by Roger Trigg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is one God, why are there so many religions? Might all be false? Some revert to a relativism that allows different 'truth's' for different people, but this is incoherent. This Element argues that monotheism has provided the basis for a belief in objective truth. Human understanding is fallible and partial, but without the idea of one God, there is no foundation for a belief in one reality or a common human nature. The shadow of monotheism lies over our understanding of science, and of morality.
Author : Jamie Cawley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784628980
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Beliefs written by Jamie Cawley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, objective understanding of what the major ‘beliefs’ are about. The major beliefs include: Polytheism, Judaism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Nationalism, Communism and Environmentalism. All have over 100 million followers and the full structure of faith-determined behavioural guidance.
Author : Francis Schmidt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9783718603671
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Inconceivable Polytheism written by Francis Schmidt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jonathan Kirsch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142196339
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)
Download or read book God Against the Gods written by Jonathan Kirsch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." —Publishers Weekly "Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." —David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the Anchor Bible Project "Kirsch tackles the central issue bedeviling the world today - religious intolerance… A timely book, well-written and researched." —Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet and the Goddess and Sex, Time and Power "An intriguing read." —The Jerusalem Report "A timely tale about the importance of religious tolerance in today’s world." —San Francisco Chronicle "Kirsch is a fine storyteller with a flair for rendering ancient tales relevant and appealing." —The Washington Post
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Polytheism and monotheism written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book The Origin and Development of Religious Belief written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Page duBois
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728831
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book A Million and One Gods written by Page duBois and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
Author : Stephen Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139488147
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book One God written by Stephen Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This contradiction provides a challenge for our understanding of ancient pagan religion. Certain forms of cult activity, including acclamations of 'one god' and the worship of theos hypsistos, the highest god, have sometimes been interpreted as evidence for pagan monotheism. This book discusses pagan monotheism in its philosophical and intellectual context, traces the evolution of new religious ideas in the time of the Roman empire, and evaluates the usefulness of the term 'monotheism' as a way of understanding these developments in later antiquity outside the context of Judaism and Christianity. In doing so, it establishes a framework for understanding the relationship between polytheistic and monotheistic religious cultures between the first and fourth centuries AD.
Author : F. E. Peters
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069112373X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume II written by F. E. Peters and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstrate the truth of this thesis as to illustrate it. Frank Peters, one of the world's foremost experts on the monotheistic faiths, takes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and after briefly tracing the roots of each, places them side by side to show both their similarities and their differences. Volume I, The Peoples of God, tells the story of the foundation and formation of the three monotheistic communities, of their visible, historical presence. Volume II, The Words and Will of God, is devoted to their inner life, the spirit that animates and regulates them. Peters takes us to where these religions live: their scriptures, laws, institutions, and intentions; how each seeks to worship God and achieve salvation; and how they deal with their own (orthodox and heterodox) and with others (the goyim, the pagans, the infidels). Throughout, he measures--but never judges--one religion against the other. The prose is supple, the method rigorous. This is a remarkably cohesive, informative, and accessible narrative reflecting a lifetime of study by a single recognized authority in all three fields. The Monotheists is a magisterial comparison, for students and general readers as well as scholars, of the parties to one of the most troubling issues of today--the fierce, sometimes productive and often destructive, competition among the world's monotheists, the siblings called Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774166310
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)
Download or read book From Akhenaten to Moses written by Jan Assmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.
Author : Laurel Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135947813
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Beyond Monotheism written by Laurel Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurel Schneider takes the reader on a vivid journey from the origins of "the logic of the One" - only recently dubbed monotheism - through to the modern day, where monotheism has increasingly failed to adequately address spiritual, scientific, and ethical experiences in the changing world. In Part I, Schneider traces a trajectory from the ancient history of monotheism and multiplicity in Greece, Israel, and Africa through the Constantinian valorization of the logic of the One, to medieval and modern challenges to that logic in poetry and science. She pursues an alternative and constructive approach in Part II: a "logic of multiplicity" already resident in Christian traditions in which the complexity of life and the presence of God may be better articulated. Part III takes up the open-ended question of ethics from within that multiplicity, exploring the implications of this radical and realistic new theology for the questions that lie underneath theological construction: questions of belonging and nationalism, of the possibility of love, and of unity. In this groundbreaking work of contemporary theology, Schneider shows that the One is not lost in divine multiplicity, and that in spite of its abstractions, divine multiplicity is realistic and worldly, impossible ultimately to abstract.
Author : Ian G. Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108988075
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Monotheism and Faith in God written by Ian G. Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After offering a brief overview of the role of faith within Judaism, Christianity and Islam, an interdisciplinary analysis of faith, belief, belief systems and the act of believing is undertaken. The debate over the nature of doctrine between George Lindbeck and Alister McGrath brings into focus four ways in which beliefs can be employed: expressive, interpretative, formative and referential/relational. An analysis of monotheistic belief ensues which demonstrates how it can function meaningfully in each of these modes, including the last, where insights from phenomenology and relational ontology, as well as philosophical theology, favour a participatory approach in which God is encountered not as an object of investigation, but as that transcendent Other whose worship is the fulfilment of human being. The study concludes by highlighting convergences between the nature of faith presented in the initial scriptural overview and that developed throughout the rest of the study.
Author : Benjamin D. Sommer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477781
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel written by Benjamin D. Sommer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195167686
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Biblical Monotheism written by Mark S. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438084
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew V. Novenson, ed., Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity is a collection of state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on views of God, Christ, and other divine beings in ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical texts.
