10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HENOTHEIST»
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henotheist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
henotheist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Brahman: Systematic Theology from a Comparative Perspective
This definition has much merit, but he goes on to make a curious distinction
between the monotheist, henotheist, and polytheist: Such persons [i.e.,
intellectuals] at their best are monotheist: for them, truth, justice, beauty, and love
— including, ...
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Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, ...
henotheist is a person who worships one god without excluding the existence of
others. “A henotheist,” Odun said, “is a person who relates to deity in a personal
way. For a time, one might be attuned to Venus; at another time, to Saturn.
Hommel would have us see in Abraham a monotheist,32 who. however, was
nothing more than a henotheist, since the god of Melchizedek, to whom he
willingly paid tithes, was a mere Canaanite deity.23 Jacob also was a henotheist,
as can ...
William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews,
1911
Dr. Behrends is certainly not warranted in stating that the Decalogue is intensely
and emphatically a law-code of spiritual and ethical monotheism, in opposition to
my contention that Moses was a pronounced henotheist. Conceding that Moses ...
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The Presbyterian Review
These statements, however, do not make it necessary to change the affirmation
just made regarding Max Miiller's belief. It might ap- . pear that until man had the
predicate God he could not well be called either a polytheist or a henotheist.
Charles Augustus Briggs, Archibald Alexander Hodge, Francis Landrey Patton,
1882
A henotheist is one who, while fully and constantly believing in a variety of gods,
yet cannot refrain from ascribing to the one ... Any one who keeps a fetich or
carries an amulet is as much a henotheist as is a Vedic poet ; or, for that matter, ...
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The Stories of Elijah and Elisha as Polemics Against Baal ...
3) In fact most scholars today will agree that Elijah was a Monotheist and not a
Henotheist. James writes the following: "a final point of resemblance between
Elijah and Moses is that they both were practical monotheists. We have already
seen ...
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The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan ...
It manifested itself in various forms (even if we disregard the henotheist
tendency30 that became conspicuous in the Roman period). The most
elementary, of which Herodotus provides numerous examples, was the
straightforward verbal ...
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Reading Daniel as a Text in Theological Hermeneutics
Though Nebuchadnezzar was no Yahwist at the outset, introduced as a
henotheist, he sought to honor, revere, and thank his god by placing the spoils of
the Jerusalem conquest into the temple of his god. Belshazzar is not even a
henotheist ...
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The Presbyterian Review
These statements, however, do not make it necessary to change the affirmation
just made regarding Max Miiller's belief. It might appear that until man had the
predicate God he could not well be called either a polytheist or a henotheist. The
fair ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HENOTHEIST»
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henotheist is used in the context of the following news items.
Polytheistic Monism: A Guest Post by Christopher Scott Thompson …
3- Monism and henotheism are not synonyms although a henotheist theology can also be monist. 4- Polytheistic monism is an ancient theology ... «Patheos, May 14»
Zoroaster & the Dawning of Monotheism
When the Jewish faith evolved from henotheist (the belief in many gods but yours is best) to monotheist (only one deity worthy of the name) is ... «Patheos, Mar 14»
Malaysia and monotheism
... for a polytheist, and indeed for a henotheist—a member of a tribe that worships one deity but accepts there may be others. But for a logically ... «The Economist, Oct 13»
Atheist critiques of religion
There are atheist Pagans, naturalist Pagans, humanist Pagans, pantheist Pagans, polytheist Pagans, duotheist Pagans, henotheist Pagans, ... «Patheos, Apr 13»
Jesus Had a Fallen Nature, Just Like the Bible
Maybe the crux of what I'm saying is that progressive revelation (henotheist to monotheist, vengeance to forgiveness, etc.) and the incarnational ... «Patheos, Jul 12»