monotheism

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Recent Examples of monotheism These include roads, cars, fences, ranchers, cities, computers, cell phones, the rich but also the ignorant poor (most of all, white-trash Trump voters), Nazis, NPR’s Kai Ryssdal, technocrats, Apple, the internet, and monotheism. Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023 Ethical monotheism differs from ethical humanism. Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2021 The Canaanites were an ancient pagan people whom the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism. Zeena Saifi, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022 To this figure, monotheism added a sense of the homogeneity of societies and groups. Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for monotheism 
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Noun
  • The non-specific prayer hints at an innate paganism, a murky complexity roiling beneath Ellen’s adolescent purity; that double nature is increasingly manifest in Depp’s performance as the plot advances.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.
    Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
    Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Zoom out: Trump — who describes himself as Presbyterian — rarely talks about any religious experience or personal theology — beyond suggesting God may have saved him from a would-be assassin's bullet in July.
    Axios, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The real Jane did love reading books, but was more passionate about languages and theology than science.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 27 June 2024
Noun
  • In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.
    Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
  • Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.
    Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
Noun
  • He is revered in the Catholic Church as both a saint and as a Doctor of the Church, a special title given to those who have made major contributions to theology and doctrine.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The new doctrine allows for a potential nuclear response by Russia even to a conventional attack by any country that is supported by a nuclear power.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • In classical Greek, dogma referred to a philosophical tenet or decree.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In Sister Deborah, real liberation lies in eschewing conformity to any dogma, even the Bible.
    Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024

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