- 1一神論（講宗教類型時也說一神教：一神論偏這種想法，一神教偏這種宗教）
Monotheism is the belief that there is only one God — not many gods, and not “no God”. It is a careful school-and-news word, used when people sort kinds of faith. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the three religions most often put in this box. Though actually, the tidy label is tidier than life. Some Christians speak of God as three (the Trinity), and in daily practice some people in “one-God” religions also honour saints, spirits, or local powers. Scholars argue about the edges. The word was made to sit beside (many gods) and (no God). You do not need it at the dinner table; you need it when you talk about religion as an idea.
組成A learned 17th-century coinage: mono- + theism, from Greek μονός (monós, “one”) and θεός (theós, “god”) + -ισμός (-ismós). Henry More coined it around 1660, next to the earlier words atheism and polytheism; the simpler word theism came a little later.
同家族的字
- theismbelief in God or gods — the second half
- polytheismthe earlier parallel: belief in many gods
- atheismthe earlier parallel: belief in no God
- monotheista person who holds this belief
- monotheisticthe adjective
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monotheismnoun/ˌmɑnoʊ̯ˈθiɪzm̩/
- 1
obsoleteBelief in the One True God, defined by More as personal, immaterial and trinitarian.
- 2
The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
- 3
The belief that God is one person (Judaism, Unitarian Christianity, Islam), not three persons (Trinitarian Christianity, Hinduism)
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