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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. Belief that there is only one God Not to be confused with Classical theism. "Monotheist" redirects here. For the American band, see Monotheist (band). For the album by Celtic Frost, see Monotheist (album). Part of a series on Theism Types of faith Agnosticism Apatheism Atheism Classical ...
Henotheism is the worship of a single, supreme god that does not deny the existence or possible existence of other deities that may be worshipped. [1] [2] [3] Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) coined the word, and Friedrich Welcker (1784–1868) used it to depict primitive monotheism among ancient Greeks.
Classically, binitarianism is understood as a form of monotheism—that is, that God is absolutely one being—and yet with binitarianism there is a "twoness" in God, which means one God family. The other common forms of monotheism are "unitarianism", a belief in one God with one person, and "trinitarianism", a belief in one God with three persons.
Ethical monotheism originated—pace any claims of priority on behalf of Zoroastrianism [2] —within Judaism. [1] [3] [4] [5] The concept is present in various other monotheistic religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Christianity, the BaháΚΌí Faith, Sikhism, and Islam.
Monotheism has attracted criticism throughout the history of the concept. Opponents of Akhenaten restored polytheism in ancient Egypt following his death. Although Abrahamic monotheism later achieved widespread prominence, critics have described monotheism as a cause of ignorance, narrow-mindedness, oppression, and violence.
Jewish monotheism is a continuation of earlier Hebrew henotheism, the exclusive worship of the God of Israel as prescribed in the Torah and practiced at the Temple of Jerusalem. Strict monotheism emerges in Hellenistic Judaism and Rabbinical Judaism.
CONNOR SCHNEPS, 21, Alex’s younger brother, who was 12 at the time and staying at a neighbor’s house the night of the shooting: I got woken up at around 5:30, 6:00. I got driven home, even though it was two houses away. … I see my brother Alex crying. I see mom and dad crying. They all look at me.
In Moses and Monotheism, Freud proposed that Moses had been a priest of Akhenaten who fled Egypt after the pharaoh's death and perpetuated monotheism through a different religion. [42] Freud's view on religion was embedded in his larger theory of psychoanalysis, which has been criticized as unscientific. [43]