Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes that there is but one God.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes that there is but one God.
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- noun a believer in, or advocate of,
monotheism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a believer in one god
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Examples
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If there's a tendency within monotheist religions for conservative moralism to dominate progressive ethics -- as I think there is -- any lack of resolve on the part of the progressives in defying the conservatives is bad news for us all.
The Heirs of Job Hal Duncan 2006
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If there's a tendency within monotheist religions for conservative moralism to dominate progressive ethics -- as I think there is -- any lack of resolve on the part of the progressives in defying the conservatives is bad news for us all.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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What I am saying is that it's a pattern, a recurring feature in monotheism, that this sort of moralistic fervour erupts time and time again, and that rather than writing the pogroms and inquisitions and jihads and crusades off as aberrations I think it's high time we started calling the monotheist religions out on this tendency to go all Smite The Unbeliever on us.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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What I am saying is that it's a pattern, a recurring feature in monotheism, that this sort of moralistic fervour erupts time and time again, and that rather than writing the pogroms and inquisitions and jihads and crusades off as aberrations I think it's high time we started calling the monotheist religions out on this tendency to go all Smite The Unbeliever on us.
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
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Philo does more than assert that Abraham was a monotheist; he actually describes how this came about, and although he seems to be talking about Abraham, he was really talking about himself.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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It was the fusion of this egalitarian and activist tribal ethos with the monotheist tradition that gave Islam its distinctive political character.
The Slaughter That Muslims Could Not Ignore Reuel Marc Gerecht 2011
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The Hebrew tribes may picked it up during the Babylonian captivity, or, if you assume that Abraham was from Mesopotamia, and a monotheist, he may have been a Zoroastrian, and passed the story down to his family, and it spread through the entire tribe.
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Like the character development, and the subversion (the monotheist sleeping with her wife and two husbands).
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Reality, with all of its ups and downs, is thus easily accounted for, at least in theory, so long as you are not a monotheist.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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While it certainly hurt him no less to see natural disaster strike, or to see himself or his family stricken, at least adversity did not bring with it that sickening question of the monotheist: Where is the fairness, the order, in all this?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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