The Idea Of Semitic Monotheism
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Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0192653865 |
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The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century—from the Enlightenment to the First World War. It aims to understand the new status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new discipline. Guy G. Stroumsa focuses on the concept of Semitic monotheism, a concept developed by Ernest Renan around the mid-nineteenth century on the basis of the postulated and highly problematic contradistinction between Aryan and Semitic families of peoples, cultures, and religions. This contradistinction grew from the Western discovery of Sanskrit and its relationship with European languages, at the time of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Together with the rise of scholarly Orientalism, this discovery offered new perspectives on the East, as a consequence of which the Near East was demoted from its traditional status as the locus of the Biblical revelations. This innovative work studies a central issue in the modern study of religion. Doing so, however, it emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day.
Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019289868X |
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The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenment to the First World War. It aims to understand the new status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new discipline. Guy G. Stroumsa focuses on the concept of Semitic monotheism, a concept developed by Ernest Renan around the mid-nineteenth century on the basis of the postulated and highly problematic contradistinction between Aryan and Semitic families of peoples, cultures, and religions. This contradistinction grew from the Western discovery of Sanskrit and its relationship with European languages, at the time of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Together with the rise of scholarly Orientalism, this discovery offered new perspectives on the East, as a consequence of which the Near East was demoted from its traditional status as the locus of the Biblical revelations. This innovative work studies a central issue in the modern study of religion. Doing so, however, it emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day.
Author | : Rajinder Kaur Rohi |
Publisher | : Publication Bureau Pubjabi University |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Loren T. Stuckenbruck |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2004-05-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567082930 |
Download Early Christian and Jewish Monotheism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Early Christology must focus not simply on "historical" but also on theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice. In this book, a range of distinguished contributors considers the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone—the emergence of "monotheism". The idea of monotheism is critically examined from various perspectives, including the history of ideas, Graeco-Roman religions, early Jewish mediator figures, scripture exegesis, and the history of its use as a theological category. The studies explore different ways of conceiving of early Christian monotheism today, asking whether monotheism is a conceptually useful category, whether it may be applied cautiously and with qualifications, or whether it is to be questioned in favor of different approaches to understanding the origins of Jewish and Christian beliefs and worship. This is volume 1 in the Early Christianity in Context series and volume 263 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series>
Author | : Jack Shechter |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2018-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 076187044X |
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Jack Shechter offers a detailed clarification of the ideational development within each of the tenets that flow from the Oneness of God that is the core of the monotheistic idea as it has evolved over the centuries. The Idea of Monotheism historically traces the concept of God as it emerged in the ongoing life of the people in specific time periods; it reflects the newly perceived perspectives about the deity due to changing times, locales, and climates of opinion. However, so profoundly One is God in Judaism, these transformations had not effect whatever on this eternally uniform substance. Thus, what man did over time was to uncover God's true nature; he unraveled that which was always there—the nonexistence of other gods and His universality.
Author | : Roger Trigg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108787673 |
Download Monotheism and Religious Diversity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
If there is one God, why are there so many religions? Might all be false? Some revert to a relativism that allows different 'truth's' for different people, but this is incoherent. This Element argues that monotheism has provided the basis for a belief in objective truth. Human understanding is fallible and partial, but without the idea of one God, there is no foundation for a belief in one reality or a common human nature. The shadow of monotheism lies over our understanding of science, and of morality.
Author | : Hans Köchler |
Publisher | : International Progress Organization |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9783700303398 |
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Concept of Momotheism in Islam & Christianity
Author | : James F. McGrath |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0252091892 |
Download The Only True God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised. Surveying New Testament writings and Jewish sources from before and after the rise of Christianity, James F. McGrath argues that even the most developed Christologies in the New Testament fit within the context of first century Jewish monotheism. McGrath pinpoints when the parting of ways took place over the issue of God's oneness, and explores philosophical ideas such as "creation out of nothing" which caused Jews and Christians to develop differing concepts and definitions about God.
Author | : Y. Tzvi Langermann |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900421741X |
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Fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the world explore the theological, philosophical, and historical connections between the three Abrahamic faiths and ethics. Timely reading for students of religion, philosophy, and ethics.
Author | : Jan Assmann |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080477286X |
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Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the truth it proclaims. This exclusion has exploded time and again into violence and persecution, with no end in sight. Here, for the first time, Assmann traces the repeated attempts that have been made to do away with this distinction since the early modern period. He explores at length the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of "counter-religions," and of book religions versus cultic religions. He also deals with the entry of ethics into religion's very core. Informed by the debate his own work has generated, he presents a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.