How to Use monotheism in a Sentence

monotheism

noun

• Examples of memes are monotheism, the idea that the earth revolves around the sun or that diseases are caused by microbes and not evil spirits.
  — Diana Kruzman, USA TODAY, 6 June 2017
• Too many forms of atheism have functioned like monotheisms by another method.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
• That's something that happens across all of Europe, across all of the world where monotheism displaces polytheism.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Both books trace the gradual emergence of monotheism from a background of polytheism.
  — David Wolpe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• And Platonic doctrines about the soul and the afterlife had been reconciled with the core principles of monotheism.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• Kabbalah preserved the frame of monotheism while shattering the idol of monolithic truth.
  — George Prochnik, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
• The opera is divided into three acts: first the pharaoh’s ascendency to the throne, then his embrace of monotheism and construction of a new city, and finally his death.
  — Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
• In a foundational scene of monotheism, Moses doffs his kicks to approach the burning bush; shoes are, by their pedestrian nature, unfit for holy ground.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• Many of the worst features or the worst human harms inflicted by monotheism have been paralleled in the secular religions of modern times.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
• Absent are the dominating themes of monotheism — a fall from an original state of grace, followed by redemption — and a clear dichotomy of good and evil.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• While rabbis are empowered to partner with God in the development of the law, at its foundation is a system of ethical monotheism.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2021
• In this respect monotheism was not an innovation but a revival, a hardening.
  — Roberto Calasso, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Atheism is a continuation of monotheism by other means.
  — Tim Crane, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• The pharaoh’s monotheism is presented as a prefiguration of the Abrahamic relationship between God and man.
  — Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
• Of these, all except Russia and India are countries where Islam (or at least monotheism, in Indonesia) is entrenched in the political system and followed by the great majority of people.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2020
• The pharaoh Akhenaten, reviled and stricken from official records for introducing monotheism to Egypt, was cancelled quite thoroughly in the fourteenth century BC.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
• These New Atheists are mostly ignorant of religion, and only really concerned with a particular kind of monotheism, which is a narrow segment of the broader religious world.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
• Some have argued that the rise of Islam, Arab monotheism, was contingent on the domestication of the camel (which opened up interior trade networks previously unaccessible).
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2010
• Since then, Cannonier has connected with his ancestral roots in African spirituality based on laws of the universe as opposed to traditional monotheism or polytheism.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Its subject matter hints at one reason why Rubens was so fixated on classical history: Constantine was the first Roman emperor to throw polytheistic paganism overboard in favor of the monotheism of Christianity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• In northern Pakistan, Islamic monotheism manages to coexist with a shamanistic appreciation of glaciers’ power.
  — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• More specifically, acceptance required colonial Europe, champion of white supremacy, to admit that an African civilization created works of art and voiced monotheism thousands of years before Europe had Christianity or writing.
  — Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
• More specifically, acceptance required colonial Europe, champion of white supremacy, to admit that an African civilization created works of art and voiced monotheism thousands of years before Europe had Christianity or writing.
  — Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017

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