monotheism
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The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
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A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, and both inclusive monotheism and pluriform ( panentheistic ) monotheism which, while recognising many distinct gods, postulate some underlying unity.
Although he took his monotheism seriously, he later taught the only way to save mankind from moral and physical extinction was for God to do the unthinkable, descend into human flesh.
Bedreddin created a populist religious movement in the Ottoman Sultanate, "subversive conclusions promoting the suppression of social differences between rich and poor as well as the barriers between different forms of monotheism."
Christians overwhelmingly assert that monotheism is central to the Christian faith, as the Nicene Creed (and others), which gives the orthodox Christian definition of the Trinity, begins: "I believe in one God".
For generations, scholars warred incessantly over 'the justice of Zeus,' unintentionally blurring it with a monotheism imported from Judeo-Christian thought.
By the age of 30, he was a preacher of monotheism and his followers were adherents of Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord).