Sentence examples for the monotheism from inspiring English sources

The other is the monotheism of the hallucinating Hebraic prophets.

After that, the monotheism of Islam remained unwavering and strong, through persecution, exile, and war, and before long the Prophet had achieved victory over his enemies and the new faith spread like a conquering fire across the world.

The picture of Bin Laden that Mr. Bergen draws is of an aging leader of a troubled organization who at one point became convinced that Al Qaeda was suffering from a branding problem that could be solved by changing its name to "the Monotheism and Jihad Group" or "the Restoration of the Caliphate Group".

The passionate importance given to the proclamation of Yahweh as the one god who counts for Israel and the equally passionate rejection of other gods, however, make it truer to speak of the monotheism of Israel, as in what became the Jewish affirmation of faith, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, one Lord" (Deuteronomy 6 4; New English Bible).

He starts with the deities of hunter-­gatherer tribes, moves to those of chiefdoms and nations, then on to the polytheism of the early Israelites and the monotheism that followed, and then to the New Testament and the Koran, before finishing off with the modern multinational Gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The monotheism of these two traditions resisted the challenge of nature.

A survey of the various positions may serve to provide a more adequate picture of the complex reality involved in the monotheisms and quasi-monotheisms.

His account of a Turcophone world, where barriers between the monotheisms had blurred, is not entirely implausible even though the areas where this situation existed were about 400 miles to the east of this book's notional setting.

In Western monotheism, especially the monotheisms of the Abrahamic tradition, God is conceived to be both the creator and sustainer of all that exists.

Given the strong monotheism and the anti-iconic attitude of Islam, many of the questions that arose between Judaism and Trinitarian and iconic Christianity were not an issue between Judaism and Islam.

For the Egyptians, monotheism is the norm, whether Muslim or Coptic Christian, though their ancient culture worshipped multiple gods as well.