How to Use monotheism in a Sentence

monotheism

noun
  • Too many forms of atheism have functioned like monotheisms by another method.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
  • What's going on is a great civil warring inside a great monotheism.
    — Rebecca Lee, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2016
  • To this figure, monotheism added a sense of the homogeneity of societies and groups.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Both books trace the gradual emergence of monotheism from a background of polytheism.
    — David Wolpe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • In this respect monotheism was not an innovation but a revival, a hardening.
    — Roberto Calasso, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Kabbalah preserved the frame of monotheism while shattering the idol of monolithic truth.
    — George Prochnik, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • And Platonic doctrines about the soul and the afterlife had been reconciled with the core principles of monotheism.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 30 Mar. 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
  • Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
    — Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Because many people worshipped some variation of a sun god, Aurelian seemed to think Sol Invictus would be the god most likely to pull off monotheism.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The pharaoh’s monotheism is presented as a prefiguration of the Abrahamic relationship between God and man.
    — Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • In northern Pakistan, Islamic monotheism manages to coexist with a shamanistic appreciation of glaciers’ power.
    — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Until 2004, Zarqawi ran an organization separate from al Qaeda, known as Tawhid, whose name corresponds to the idea of monotheism in Arabic.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Christianity became the dominant religion of the western world during the fourth century under the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine, who embraced monotheism, or the belief in one God.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Stasevska was born in 1984, the same year that Glass’ hypnotic, ritualistic opera, about an Egyptian pharaoh who dared to push monotheism onto his polytheistic culture, debuted in Stuttgart, Germany.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026

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