| Front | henotheism \HEN-uh-thee-iz-uhm\ |
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| Back | noun Belief in one god without denying the existence of others. ["Henotheism" comes to us from the German word "Henotheismus," which in turn is derived from the Greek "hen-" ("one") plus "theos" ("god"). Someone who engages in henotheism worships one god as supreme over all others. Max Müller, a respected 19th-century scholar, is credited with promoting the word "henotheism" as a counterpart to "polytheism" ("belief in or worship of more than one god") and "monotheism" ("the doctrine or belief that there is but one God"). Müller also offered the related word "kathenotheism" for the worship of several gods successively.] "On the empirical side, Lind thinks he sees an accelerating pattern of religious indifferentism in this country; Americans, he argues, have adopted the henotheism of `one God and many equally true religions.' But the phenomenon Lind is trying to describe could much more accurately be thought of as a flourishing of religious tolerance--and one, moreover, that is morally grounded in religious convictions." Weigel, George, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. (book reviews), Commentary, 1 Jul 1995. |
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