| 单词 | polytheism |
| 例句 | The first commandment forbid polytheism, and, unlike other conquered peoples, the Jews refused to capitulate. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z Both books trace the gradual emergence of monotheism from a background of polytheism. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z They practiced what appeared to be a form of polytheism — while professing to be Christians — in a deeply devout country. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z A tragicomedy about polytheism starring petty gods who complain like tired parents annoyed by their noisy children. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z Before Constantine’s conversion, Christianity expanded through missionary work, which succeeded in founding congregations across the Empire but did not seriously disrupt polytheism or the Empire’s religious diversity. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Bedouin and other seminomadic Arabs practiced polytheism, the worship of many gods and goddesses who were often considered patrons of certain tribes or residents of certain locales. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Moses' motive, Freud hypothesized, was to preserve a sect of the ancient Egyptian religion which rejected polytheism and only worshipped the sun god, Aten. Freud was dying of cancer, the Nazis were closing in — and his last book challenged Judaism. Why? 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z By Gray’s account, they ignore polytheism and animism almost entirely, while insisting on reading verses of Genesis or lines of the Nicene Creed as if they were primitive scientific theories. Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Another wrote that the "mementoes" are a "means of leading people to polytheism", along with a photograph of one of the statues. 3D printing shop closed after Islamist pressure 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z That being noted, the incorporation of non-Christian celebrations into the liturgical calendar did not imply that Christians were willing to accept polytheism. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The peninsula was home to those practicing Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrian, and polytheism. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Veneration of objects or idols, and hints to polytheism, run in conflict with the Wahhabis strain of Islam that is growing in popularity in Java. A feminist revolution in an ancient kingdom 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z She could not find work in Idlib’s university; Philosophy had been banned as “polytheism.” ‘2 Bitter Options’ for Syrians Trapped Between Assad and Extremists 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z “Our primary focus lies in the war against polytheism and apostasy, and of those, Sufism, sorcery and divination,” he said. Islamic State raises stakes with Egypt mosque attack 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z An edition of the Islamic State’s al-Nabaa newsletter, published last year, featured an interview with one of the group’s Egyptian cadres, who promised to “combat the manifestations of polytheism including Sufism.” As Egypt grieves after mosque massacre, security forces ramp up strikes on militants 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z This new religious culture resulted in the neglect of traditional Roman polytheism, and the empire’s eastward shift came at the expense of the western empire. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The act of praying to saints and worshiping at their tombs is an example of what extremists refer to as “shirk,” or polytheism, according to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam. To the World, They Are Muslims. To ISIS, Sufis Are Heretics. 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The act of praying to saints and worshipping at their tombs is an example of what extremists refer to as “shirk,” or polytheism, according to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam. To the world, Sufis are Muslims; to ISIS, they’re heretics 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z “Our primary focus lies in the war against polytheism and apostasy, and of those, Sufism, sorcery and divination,” he said. Islamic State raises stakes with Egypt mosque attack 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He was convinced that there should be no intermediaries between the believer and Allah, and praying to a human being, dead or alive, however holy, was tantamount to polytheism, and therefore un-Islamic. Two impulsive leaders fan the global flames 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The Sunni militant group and other Sunni extremists reject Shiism, calling it polytheism. Death Toll in Baghdad Bombing Rises to at Least 151 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z It and other Sunni extremists reject Shiism, calling it polytheism. At Least 84 Killed in Blast at Busy Baghdad Shopping District 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Islamic State and other Sunni extremist groups reject Shiism, branding it polytheism. Islamic State Claims Deadly Car Bombing in Iraq 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But, as a symbol of polytheism, it was also a glaring target to Isis. Isis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city' 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z He dismissed Egypt’s polytheism and introduced worship that focused solely on the Aten, the disk of the sun – something considered heresy at the time. Queen Nefertiti dazzles the modern imagination – but why? 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z But a week later, IS published photographs of what it said was the destruction of two Islamic shrines near Palmyra, which it described as "manifestations of polytheism". Islamic State militants 'destroy Palmyra statues' - BBC News 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z To venerate anything other than the one God was shirk, or polytheism, a crime Wahhabis believed should be punishable by death. A New Wave of Terrorist Violence 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Venerating burial sites, they declared, encouraged Muslims to worship men not God, and were thus places of shirk, or polytheism. Save our stones 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Saudi clerics who follow the country's strict Wahhabi doctrine view such rituals as akin to polytheism and advocate the destruction of shrines. Saudi-Iran rivalry over Yemen deepens Mideast sectarianism 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z And, there are strong theological refutations against atheism, polytheism and the Christian doctrine of Trinity. Ramadan, Day 18: What Is Faith? 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z He also suggested that a Muslim prayer or ones that espoused other viewpoints, like polytheism or atheism, might not be as readily welcomed. Praying for the Home Team in Oklahoma City 2014-02-27T21:21:15Z Disbelieving in God is polytheism and cursing the Prophet is polytheism. Syria army 'planning Aleppo assault' 2013-06-10T18:19:30Z But the transformation of gods into heroes is a very common fact in all polytheisms, and most common in the kind of unconscious euhemerism from which infant peoples never free themselves. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The ancient Babylonian psalms clearly reveal that the highest minds were moving out of polytheism to a monotheistic identification of various deities as diverse phases of one underlying essence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Christism in due time passes, like polytheism, and a larger faith succeeds. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z That a doctrine of polytheism is clearly taught in Gen. iii. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Oriental, 24. polytheism knows no false gods, 25. how to judge religions, 40. city cults, 56. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z But so little concrete is this divine unity—spiritual as its idea of God is—so powerless its grip, so to speak—that Hindooism, with a monstrous inconsistency, is also the maddest of polytheisms. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Lastly pre-Mosaic polytheism seems to be implied in the Mosaic prohibition Ex. xx. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The early Christian ‘apologists’ ridiculed the human gods of the old polytheism, yet they did but concentrate the same principle more perfectly in the form of their Christ. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z And can we regard the prohibition of polytheism and the prohibition of idolatry as one commandment? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z God, 58. polytheism and personality of gods, 70, 73, 76, 95. worship of God, 57. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z We have not invented so much as a form, or variety, of polytheism. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z It is true that Arabian polytheism in the time of Mahomet was in a state of decay. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Yet in the multiplicity of all polytheisms, ont supreme Deity was always recognized. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Thus to take the preface as a distinct word is not reasonable unless there are cogent grounds for uniting the commandments against polytheism and idolatry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z He is an educated Greek who has read the philosophers, but he is at heart an apologist—a defender of myth, ritual, mystery and polytheism. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z At that period the urban masses, but recently converted to Christianity, sought in the worship of the martyrs a sort of substitute for polytheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Besides those who were ready to go the whole length and accept circumcision, numbers adopted particular Jewish practices, observing the Sabbath, for instance, or turned from polytheism to the doctrine of the One God. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Beelzebub is not divided against himself; and if polytheism is not Divine, monotheism must be. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z By this means an enlightened monotheism and the grossest polytheism could, and did, exist side by side, as well as clever and reasonable cosmologies along with the strangest and wildest legends. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z After all, more help was to be had from Lucretius than from Epictetus in ridding the mind of the paralysis of polytheism. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Phœnician polytheism had crossed swords, long ago, with Phœnician practicality; and the gods, it must be confessed, had been pretty well annihilated in the series of contests. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z This tendency, however, he, unlike the earlier conservative writers, rightly considers to have emerged out of polytheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Before the Light of the world no false god and no polytheism could stand. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z And they were right—there was in this gross polytheism of theirs a thing of high merit, and that was, the character of the chief of their gods, Merodach. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Sooner or later, he read Varro's books, the armoury of every Latin Christian against polytheism. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z I bear witness that Mahomet is his servant, his envoy, and his prophet, who hath dissipated doubts, confounded polytheism, and put down LIES, &c.... The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z The other is popular Buddhism, which sinks and dies into puerile superstitions and into the grossest polytheism. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Its polytheism was the example and the warrant of all forms of moral abominations. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z This was, to all intents and purposes, symbolic of a great struggle, in early days, between polytheism and monotheism—for the masses the former, for the more learned and thoughtful the latter. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z It was a belief in one God; and it might as well be opposed to polytheism or idolatry, or any of the ancient systems of superstition, as to the doctrine of the Trinity. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z They agreed with the Christians in their abhorrence of polytheism and idolatry, and both regarded the former as a composition of human fraud and error, and demons as the authors and patrons of the latter. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z The transition from polytheism to monotheism was only made in Palestine and in the tradition of the Hebrews. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The miracle-working Deity of the Jews appears to have been of Egyptian extraction; and had his prototype in the god Jahouh, who held a high rank in the polytheism of the Thebans. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z We can now observe the higher aspects of the advanced polytheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The trinity of Christianity was to him as impossible and unacceptable as the antediluvian or later polytheism of his own countrymen. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z They were, it was true, only the buttresses of the old polytheism. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z It is probable, or rather certain, that even without foreign influence the polytheism of Greece must have developed a deity of love, as did the Mexican and Scandinavian polytheisms. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z That those polytheisms of the East, from which emanated Judaism and Christianity, had their root in astronomy, is proved from the most authentic sources. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z They were still able to oppose polytheism, and yet come to Jesus as the fountain of divine blessing. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Thus has the collective and historical insanity which calls itself religion been developed since fetichism, passing through all the stages from polytheism to Christian monotheism. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z What especially, he recorded in after life, used to enrapture him was Keats’s talk on the meaning and beauty of the Greek polytheism as a ‘religion of joy.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z No polytheism is likely to be without a goddess of love, and love is the chief, if not the original, department of Aphrodite in the Greek Olympus. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z All the Jewish and Christian fictions about resurrections and ascensions into what is called heaven, are also clumsily taken copies of originals in the ancient polytheism. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z That they were uttered so long ago, in a world of polytheism and low morals, fills the mind with wonder and praise. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z The polytheism of the classical poets was looked on with horror, so literally did they construe the allegorical fables of the Latin muse. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His yearning love for the old polytheism and instinctive affinity with the Greek spirit did not at all blunt his relish of actualities. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Whatever else the religion of Egypt may at any time have been, it struck every foreign observer as polytheism.** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It teaches monotheism in one verse, and polytheism in another. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z It may be stated with confidence that among the dominant races of the world the belief in one God was speedily destroyed by polytheism, and the idea of sin faded gradually but utterly away. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z After this we get a little indignant as we turn to Gibbon, and read of the mild and beneficent spirit of the ancient polytheism, which seems to find such favour in his eyes. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Like his teacher, Democritus, he attacked the prevailing polytheism, and sought to substitute the active powers of nature for the divinities of the Greeks. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z As in all fully developed polytheisms of civilised races among the Aztecs we lose sight of the moral primal Being of low savage races. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The cult of the heavenly bodies was not the source of polytheism; indeed, there are systems of polytheism in which it has never existed at all. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Their religion is a crude polytheism with a vague worship of stone images or invisible gods; it is "an ejaculatory religion." Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The question between polytheism and monotheism, which has loomed so large to some minds, never troubled him. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The next step in man’s knowledge of God was an immeasurable advance upon polytheism. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z In a cultivated people, made up out of various conquered and amalgamated tribes, we must expect polytheism, because their Olympus is a kind of divine representative assembly. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z On the one side, we have a gross and grotesque polytheism; on the other, an uncompromising monotheism. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z To this form of unbelief belong atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, paganism, polytheism, animism, and denials of Christ and Christianity. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z It is quite distinct from the polytheism of the Greeks. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z In the second place, polytheism, especially among nations somewhat civilized, is an advance in man’s conceptions of the Supreme Being. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z In polytheisms of long standing all these attributes and functions have been combined and reallotted, and the result we see in that confusion which is of the very essence of myth. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Unlike Mosaism, moreover, it was a pantheistic monotheism, and it failed accordingly in its struggle with the nebulous polytheism of Egypt. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z If what is called in reproach "Saint-worship" resembled the polytheism which it supplanted, or was a corruption, how did Dogmatism survive? An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Pray observe that we find in this group of connected beliefs and worships something quite analogous to the polytheism of the ancient world. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z But voodoo, apparently, does not even merit the condescending sort of exoticization that Disney afforded American Indian polytheism in “Pocahontas.” On Religion: Myths Obscure Voodoo, Source of Comfort in Haiti 2010-02-19T18:27:00Z Christianity in its Arian conception would have evaporated in a new polytheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Babylonian polytheism allowed the existence of divided counsels among the gods; the monotheism of Israel made this impossible. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It undermined the already crumbling polytheism; it made philosophy the apostle of a belief in a baleful daemonic agency. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Again: there is not the smallest trace of an earlier monotheism preceding the polytheism of either the one or the other nation. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z This spiritual vitality was not, as in polytheism, conceived as separated from nature in distinct divine personalities. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race IV, called Epiphănes, youngest son of the above, is chiefly remarkable for his attempt to extirpate the Jewish religion, and to establish in its place the polytheism of the Greeks. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The monotheistic tendency of the hymn to the moon-god stands in marked contrast to the polytheism of the solar hymns. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z That day did come in the fourth century when Platonism and polytheism in close league were making a last stand against the victorious Church. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In such traits as these we may discover a certain dissatisfaction with the established polytheism, striving to raise itself higher in the direction of a spiritual monotheism. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z They make counter attacks on polytheism as a folly and on the shamefulness of obscene myths. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The brightest creation of polytheism, Apollo is also the most complex, and many aspects of the people's life were reflected in his cult. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The theological thought, of which he was the subject and centre, gradually but inexorably passes from a narrow form of polytheism into a materialistic pantheism. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The earlier Platonist or Pythagorean daemonology was not employed to explain or rehabilitate polytheism. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The ancient festivals of Yule and Eostra continued under another guise and polytheism still held its sway. The Old English Herbals It is characteristic of polytheism to blur that line in several ways. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" He concludes that "in the period of which we have information totemism has given way to a more highly developed polytheism, but there are indications that the development was by way of totemism." The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II But it was an approach merely; the final step was never taken, even by the more speculative theologians of Babylonia, which swept away the polytheism of the local cults, and left Merodach without a rival. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Have not all races had their first unity from a polytheism, that marries them to rock and hill? The Trembling of the Veil With his reason gone Gud also accepted polytheism as being quite compatible with monotheism. The Book of Gud Religion begins in polytheism, the belief in many gods. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Very similar in old times was the attitude of the Roman polytheism towards the various religions with which it was brought into contact. A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade Between the polytheism of Babylonia and the monotheism of Israel a gulf is fixed which cannot be spanned. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It seems probable also that there was an esoteric doctrine of this kind among the priests and the educated, however gross the polytheism of the vulgar. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Darius was a Zoroastrian monotheist as well as a Persian, and under him and his successors polytheism ceased to be the religion of the State. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments On the one hand, it was a stage in the concentration of the divine forces, beginning with polytheism, continuing through belief in angels, and culminating in the one and only God of heaven and earth. Jewish Theology I had to tell all I knew about animism, totemism, polytheism. The Brain The same historical reasons which prevented monotheism from developing out of Babylonian polytheism prevented Istar from degenerating into an Ashtoreth. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In theology, the dominant philosophical idea of each of these epochs results in pantheism, polytheism, theism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The most striking difference between the two, that which first meets the eye, is the polytheism of the Babylonian version, in contrast with the monotheism of the Biblical narrative. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The varying application of the term Elohim to God and to the angels or gods is proof enough of the priority of polytheism, even in Judaism. Jewish Theology It is tempting, but incorrect, to suppose that a docile Israelitish writer accepted one of the chief forms of the Babylonian cosmogony, merely omitting its polytheism and substituting “Yahweh” for “Marduk.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The superstitions and beliefs of shamanism linger, indeed, under a theistic religion, and the polytheism of Babylonia was no exception to the rule. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Stoics, for example, were more successful in criticizing the current creed than in explaining the underlying truth which they recognized in polytheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" In other words, the doctrine of the Trinity is the attempt to combine gnostic polytheism and monotheism. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance In using the term world or universe we include the totality of all beings at once, and this suggests a stage of knowledge where polytheism is practically overcome. Jewish Theology And as there are clear indications of polytheism in southern Arabia, where the name is found, the name, in all probability, means the latter, thus implying polytheism. The Christian View of the Old Testament Sumerian shamanism was overlaid by Semitic polytheism, and in process of time was absorbed into it. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z To this the reply is that polytheism does not wait thus deferentially on the evolution of proper names. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion The point I wish to call attention to is that the change from polytheism to monotheism did not involve any essential modification of the accepted notions of agency. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Just as day and night form a natural contrast, divinely ordained, so do the monotheism of Israel and the polytheism of the nations constitute a spiritual contrast which can never be reconciled. Jewish Theology There are some in modern days who claim that Israel had naturally a monotheistic tendency, and on that account slowly worked its way out of polytheism into monotheism. Training the Teacher Even had it done so, it is probable that his mode of life would have rendered the paraphernalia of polytheism impossible. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal It seeks to minimise, if not to deny, the personality of the fetich, in order to exalt that of the gods of polytheism. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion In spite of the lapse in verse 26, into the language of polytheism, the priestly account represents a late theological level in which creation is conceived as the passage of will and word into existence. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Such is the lesson of history, that in polytheism, dualism, or trinitarianism one of the powers must necessarily limit or obscure another. Jewish Theology The writer does not so read the history, but finds that Israel had an inveterate tendency to polytheism, and that God only cured it of this sin through the sorrows of the captivity. Training the Teacher It is altogether erroneous to suppose that polytheism maintained its ground as a living force until the period of Constantine and Julian. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition His argument in effect is that fetichism is not polytheism, but something different, something out of which polytheism was evolved. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion The religion of the Chaldeans, from the very earliest times to which the monuments carry us back, was, in its outward aspect, a polytheism of a very elaborate character. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa Elohim, the plural form of Eloha, denoted originally the godhead as divided into a number of gods or godly beings, that is, polytheism. Jewish Theology Starting in fetishism at low stages of civilization and primitive social conditions, religion becomes polytheism at a higher, and monotheism at a still higher stage. Woman under socialism He wandered from country to country, withstanding polytheism to its face, and imparting wisdom in rhapsodies and hymns, the form, above all others, calculated most quickly in those times to spread knowledge abroad. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It did not set forth a new and nobler morality; and it accommodated itself to the existing polytheism. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion When he turned his back upon his people in Babylon, he left polytheism behind. History of Human Society This great fact is what led Herbert Spencer to conclude that the universe could have but one creator, one ruler, and that polytheism was untenable.” Carmen Ariza It is true that in the vast collection of religious phenomena, some are undisguisedly amatory—e.g. sex deities and obscene rites in polytheism, and ecstatic feelings of union with the Saviour in a few Christian Mystics. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Nor was it science alone that was affected; already might be discerned the foreshadowings of that They reject the national religion. conviction which many centuries later occasioned the final destruction of polytheism in Rome. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition And the difference is that polytheism means a plurality of gods, whereas fetichism knows no gods, but only spirits. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion Great systems of mythology sprang up among nations about to enter the precincts of civilization, and polytheism predominated. History of Human Society It was one of the first Greek books translated into Latin, and became long afterwards a favourite weapon of the Christian fathers in their polemics against polytheism. Five Stages of Greek Religion There is also abundant proof that during the long ages in which the Jews oscillated between polytheism and monotheism this worship largely prevailed. Bible Romances First Series It is because of this that we find coexisting in the pre-Hellenic times the sorcery of the Celt and the polytheism of the Hindu. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition But as polytheism declined a supreme god emerged from the crowd of deities, as the king emerged from the crowd of nobles, and ruled from a definite centre. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The nun who tells her beads, and the lady who wears an ornamental crucifix, are to some extent fetishists; while the Catholic worship of saints is only polytheism in disguise. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) If there had been some Hebrew prophets about, and a tyrant or two, progressive and bloody-minded, to agree with them, polytheism might perhaps actually have been stamped out in Greece at one time. Five Stages of Greek Religion The tenacity of this belief may be explained among other things by the living impression of the polytheism that surrounded the communities on every side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Moreover, the rivalries of a hundred priesthoods imparted to polytheism an intrinsic weakness; but monotheism implies centralization, an organized hierarchy, and therefore concentration of power. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It is simply a proof that monotheism grows out of polytheism; or, if you like, that Theism is a development of Idolatry. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) In polytheisms, the divinities are universally represented as male or female, virile and fecund. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion They believed undoubtedly in many gods; in those parts of the Avesta which come next to the hymns in time, polytheism is in full force. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Wherever we can trace back polytheism to its earliest stages we find that it results from combinations of monotheism. The Religion of Ancient Egypt Yet still it was in antagonism to the national polytheism, unless from that one god, the air, the many gods of Olympus arose. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition So again the view of the external world suggests to Newman 'atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Later, it is regarded under its various exhibitions as separable phenomena, as in polytheisms, in which must be included trinitarian systems and the dualistic doctrine of the Parsees. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion We can see here very clearly how unstable a thing polytheism is. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems It is in this way that the compound theologies built up the polytheism of Egypt and of Greece. The Religion of Ancient Egypt The imputation of irreligion made against him shows at what an early period the antagonism of polytheism and scientific inquiry was recognized. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It passes from apparent atheism and materialism to theism, polytheism, and spiritualism. Religion in Japan I do not mean by this the distinction between polytheism and monotheism. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Mr. Tylor considers that they can; he declares that the "higher deities of polytheism have their place in the general animistic system of mankind." History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Thus scientific observations cannot be reconciled with polytheism, for scientific observations demand the assumption of one universal law. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture It is very well known that the popular result of this secondary examination was the philosophical rejection of polytheism. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Natural science, however, furnishes only the negative result that the gods of polytheism are not what they are said to be: real beings of a higher order than man. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity They knew that to denounce polytheism, was to array against them the whole power of the State. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject This teaching may be called polytheism rather than idolatry. India, Its Life and Thought Later, an "editor" put the two narratives together, with all their inconsistencies and contradictions, and interlocked them into one, which presents all the main features of the original Gilgamesh story except its polytheism. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Though polytheism had lost all intellectual strength, the nations who had so recently parted with it could not be expected to have ceased from all disposition to an animalization of religion and corporealization of God. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition There is no question of atheism here; it is only a change within polytheism. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity It was this adoration of the stars and planets that led by degrees to what we call polytheism. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 And yet at the time this book was written, polytheism had already degenerated into idolatry. India, Its Life and Thought The idea of an unseen spiritual agent being at work would prevent any search for a physical explanation, since polytheism is necessarily opposed to science. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture These doctrines were altogether contrary to Greek polytheism, the prevailing religion of Athens, and they prove him to have been far in advance of the age in which he lived. History of Education But the philosophers of old could not but believe that a psychological fact of such enormous dimensions as ancient polytheism must have something answering to it in the objective world. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity It may be added that among the masses in some nominally Christian countries, particularly among the peasants of Southern Europe, the old polytheism continues in the form of the worship of saints and the Madonna. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV There was doubtless reason for this in the conditions of his time; for it may be regarded as the reaction of a strong mind against the extreme spiritualism and polytheism of the day. India, Its Life and Thought For it is not here a question simply of the dogmatic belief in Monotheism as opposed to polytheism. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy But the first sect of any importance—the Hosso—that resulted from this movement does not seem to have risen above the level of idolatry and polytheism. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It is characteristic of Euhemerism in its most radical form that it assumed that the gods of polytheism did not exist; so far it is atheism. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Its weakness was its semibarbarous ritual and its polytheism; it yielded of necessity to the simpler and loftier forms of Christianity. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV And as it laid great stress upon the letter in the book of nature, it fell into polytheism. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It eschewed the polytheism and idolatry of Hinduism. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ But such features may be due to survivals incidental to the highest form of nature religion, namely, anthropomorphic polytheism. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Even among certain nations credited with pure monotheism, it will be manifested that there was the practice of that primitive polytheism which adored the hosts of heaven. Moon Lore Their worship passes with the passing of polytheism. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It was, however, the matured dialectic of Plato which gave the death-blow to polytheism. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Let it not be supposed that there is any antagonism between their pantheism and their polytheism. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Idolatry had crept into the religious system of all the other nations of the world, and a degrading polytheism was everywhere prevalent. Ancient States and Empires It is curious to see how Hermes plays with polytheism, hinting ever so slyly the contradiction in the Greek Pantheon. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary So far as a unitary conception of the divine government of the world existed it must be referred to the spirit of the age which had outgrown the old crude polytheism. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It was not religion in itself that philosophy, through its noblest representatives, combated, but polytheism. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles India finds polytheism no more satisfying than it does pantheism. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ During this period the Jewish character assumed the hard, stubborn, exclusive cast which it has ever since maintained—an intense hostility to polytheism and all Gentile influences. Ancient States and Empires A more decided polytheism than that of Egypt cannot be imagined. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 It thus appears that Zoroastrianism was a reform of the old polytheism. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV But all this polytheism still rested on a dim monotheistic background, and all the gods were subordinated to Zeus--"the Father of gods and men." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Moreover, in the polytheism of the Puranas and in the laws and customs of Manu sin generally means only ceremonial defilement and the violation of customs and usages. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ But with the vices of polytheism, they had also abandoned its virtues, among which toleration and religious good humour had been conspicuous. The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago Now, at first sight, this is not unlike the popular polytheism of the ancient world, before the triumph of Christianity. Studies in Literature and History The theistic scheme of the old Greek polytheistic period is the broadest and finest that the ancient polytheism produced. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV This passage is a sort of obituary of polytheism. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles A generation ago few Hindus in the villages of the land would fail to defend polytheism and idolatry as an essential part of their faith. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ It is held by many students of the science of religion that fetishism preceded polytheism in the history of religion; and it is undoubted that polytheism flourished at the expense of fetishism. The Idea of God in Early Religions It seems strange, indeed, that Mohammedanism, a compact proselytising faith, closely united with the civil rulership, should have so slightly modified, during seven centuries of dominion, this infinitely divided polytheism. Studies in Literature and History While polytheism has assumed various forms, differing from one another in elaboration of deities and in general cultural character, it has had, as a system, a distinctly marked place in human experience. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV But with the ordinary believer, even where an extraneous but almost inevitable polytheism is least in evidence, the religious experience consists in substantially the same elements that appear in theistic religions. The Approach to Philosophy Shamanism, however, pure and simple, is incompatible with an advanced state of culture, and as time went on the Shamanistic faith of the Sumerians tended toward a rudimentary form of polytheism. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs But what is exactly the difference between fetishism and polytheism? The Idea of God in Early Religions Against such a faith an incoherent disorderly polytheism could make no better stand than tribal levies against a disciplined army. Studies in Literature and History The groups to be considered are polytheism, dualism, and monotheism, to which may be added brief mention of systems that do not recognize a personal divine ruler of the world. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Instead of Catholicism it proposed polytheism; and in the name of virtue and simplicity it condemned industry and art. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics And again those who defended the term, charging their opponents with polytheism, inveighed against them as introducers of heathen superstitions. A Source Book for Ancient Church History Fetishism was thrown aside sooner than polytheism: for it was an expression not only inadequate but contradictory to the idea that gave it birth. The Idea of God in Early Religions That polytheism can exist and flourish in the midst of a highly intellectual and civilised society, we know from the history of Greece and Rome. Studies in Literature and History The first stage in the final theistic history of the world up to the present day, polytheism, appears in all the great civilized nations. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It is not so much the names of Zeus, Hermes, &c., which constitute the polytheism of the Greeks; it is the plural θεοἱ, gods, which contains the fatal spell. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Thus it was that, if a glimmer of Truth did feebly illumine the sanctuary and its immediate ministers, the people at large dwelt in the outer darkness of hopeless polytheism and, worse still, of idolatry. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria At the time when polydaemonism has, as yet, not become polytheism, the personal beings, worshipped in this or that external form, have not as yet been anthropomorphised. The Idea of God in Early Religions In this respect his temperament has unconsciously a strong tincture of the intolerance which he denounces; he would sweep away Christianity as Christianity swept away polytheism. Studies in Literature and History A true monotheism has never arisen except as a criticism of polytheism. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The idea of many gods is there, and wherever that idea exists, wherever the plural of god is used in earnest, there is polytheism. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Anthropomorphism, different from polytheism and idolatry, but conducive to both.—§§ 15-17. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria What anthropomorphic polytheism presented him with, in the upshot, was with beings, not superior, but, in some or many cases, undeniably inferior to man. The Idea of God in Early Religions But the antique polytheism had no fanatical element; the deities of the victorious Romans were often acknowledged and accepted by the conquered population. Studies in Literature and History It ought to be mentioned to the credit of Muhammadanism that it arose as a protest against polytheism and the worship of idols. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 But in none of these words can we see any decided proof that those who framed them had arrived at the clear perception of One God, and were thus secured against the danger of polytheism. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion They constantly appeal to the common consent, but it is generally against polytheism, as indicating a consciousness of the unity of God. The Basis of Early Christian Theism Consequently the gods of polytheism are either destitute of morality, or divided in opinion as to what is right. The Idea of God in Early Religions Of the religion and superstitions of the Indians little need be said; the features of polytheism being everywhere as similar as its effects. Handbook to the new Gold-fields The dreamy, vague teaching of the Veda has hardened into the unmistakable polytheism and pantheism of modern Hinduism. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 But the history even of the Jews is made up of an almost uninterrupted series of relapses into polytheism. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Many of their works that have come down to us are either apologies or else answers to critics of Christianity, who attacked its doctrines from the stand-point of either polytheism or atheism. The Basis of Early Christian Theism And the difference between the two stages of polydaemonism and polytheism is not merely limited to the fact that the beings worshipped have proper names in the later stage, and had none in the earlier. The Idea of God in Early Religions The only certain result that we can win from the study of these adjectival titles is that they represent a transition between animism and polytheism, a transition exactly expressed by the one word numen. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus On the one hand theism has always fallen into the wildest polytheism, or on the other into the blankest atheism. Natural Law in the Spiritual World But what is much more significant than these traces of polytheism and idolatry is the hesitating tone in which some of the early patriarchs speak of their God. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion We have already seen how even the best theology of the Greeks led to nothing but a sort of organized or unified polytheism. The Basis of Early Christian Theism So too with polytheism: a pantheon which is divided against itself cannot stand. The Idea of God in Early Religions Those of the City-state are numina, marking a transition from animism to polytheism. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus The veiled monotheism of Egypt, the dualism of Persia, the shamanism of Etruria, the pronounced polytheism of India are too contrariant to admit of any one explanation, or to be derivative of one single source.... History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance They both share in the primitive intuition of God, they are both exposed to dangers in framing names for God, and they both fall into polytheism. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion If they but knew how little men deserved that the world of prose should receive its polytheism of love from them! Debts of Honor Before doing so, however, we cannot but notice that mythology and polytheism go together. The Idea of God in Early Religions So, too, he was wanted by the philosophical speculators of the last century b.c., who tried to interpret their own humble deities in terms of Greek philosophy and Greek polytheism. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus Those who have observed the actual state of Christianity in Mediterranean countries cannot lay much stress on the difference between Christian monotheism and pagan polytheism. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield And we have only to follow the history of these Semitic names in order to see that, in spite of their superlative meaning, they proved no stronger bulwark against polytheism than the Latin Optimus Maximus. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion The principal divergence was that Christianity, by placing God in an ideal sphere beyond the confines of this world, endeavored to rid itself of every attachment to a frequently abject polytheism. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism It is then as polydaemonism passes into polytheism, as the beings of the one come to acquire personal names and personal history, and so to become the gods of the other, that mythology arises. The Idea of God in Early Religions Such a conception of God, even on James's own admission, is akin to polytheism. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics The latter was closely bound up with polytheism and hero-worship. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield These were in search of a religion, and many of them found refuge from the coarse and incredible myths of the gods of polytheism in the purity and monotheism of the Jewish creed. The Life of St. Paul Everywhere the narrow and divided polytheism showed a confused tendency to elevate itself into a superior synthesis, but in Syria astrology lent the firmness of intelligent conviction to notions that were vague elsewhere. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism It is under polytheism that mythology reaches its most luxuriant growth; and when polytheism disappears, mythology tends to disappear with it. The Idea of God in Early Religions And such polytheism implies a pluralistic view of the universe. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics To strain human curiosity to the utmost limits of human credibility, a modern Pletho has risen in Mr. Thomas Taylor, who, consonant to the platonic philosophy in the present day, religiously professes polytheism! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Consequently the monotheism of the Jew is in reality the polytheism of many needs. Selected Essays He is enjoined to treat them with kindness, but not to obey them if they lead him to polytheism. A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 It is a theory of the origin, not merely of mythology, but also of polytheism. The Idea of God in Early Religions In that house there are many mansions, the boisterous sanctuary of a vagabond polytheism. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle This monstrous mixture of polytheism with the mysteries of Christianity, appears in everything he had about him. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 If therefore there must be a name for the religion of the Rig-Veda, polytheism would seem at first sight the most appropriate. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge The same man also said: "The display of devotional works to please men is hypocrisy, and acts of devotion done to please men are acts of polytheism." The Faith of Islam Doubtless, during the time of its vogue, Max Müller's theory was accepted precisely because it did profess to account for the origin of polytheism, and because it denied polytheism any religious value or meaning whatever. The Idea of God in Early Religions Muhammad accomplished most beneficent reforms in abolishing polytheism and such abuses as female infanticide, and at least regulating polygamy. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) The gods of monotheism will join the gods of polytheism and Yahveh and his associates will occupy in the minds of men the position now held by the gods of Olympus. The Necessity of Atheism Well, Christianity with its Trinity-teaching presented to them a limited polytheism. The Agony of the Church (1917) Some acts of men are bad, such as tyranny and polytheism. The Faith of Islam On the theory, polytheism did not originate from any religious sentiment whatever, but from a disease of language. The Idea of God in Early Religions Thus there arose in Buddhism, by a departure from the doctrine of the master, a new polytheism. A Comparative View of Religions We are witnessing today what happened in the Roman empire during the decline of polytheism. The Necessity of Atheism The Greek polytheism of Olympus was destined for the Hellenic race only. The Agony of the Church (1917) God does not pardon polytheism and infidelity; but He can, if He willeth, pardon all other crimes. The Faith of Islam And this was a view which naturally commended itself to those who were ready to say and believe that polytheism is not religion at all. The Idea of God in Early Religions This personification of the various aspects of external nature is one of the most fruitful sources of polytheism. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia The road of least resistance was compromise, and so this vast system of polytheism was perverted, while seemingly accepted into their beliefs, by making these "angels," "demons," as we now understand the word. The Necessity of Atheism Christianity was the iconoclast which broke in pieces the images of decrepit polytheism, and hewed out a way where progress might march to fulfill her splendid destiny. A Hero and Some Other Folks In the third century this school overthrew polytheism by scientific means whilst at the same time preserving everything of any value in Greek science and culture. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) If then polytheism is a stage in the history of religious belief, we have to consider it in relation to the other stages of religious belief, which preceded or followed it. The Idea of God in Early Religions In time men reject polytheism as an explanation of natural processes and substitute certain abstract ideas of ethers, atoms, molecules, and so on. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Very recently, in the time-scale of our development, man adopted the methods of "Big Business," and the religion of many gods and idols, polytheism, has given way to one Supreme God, monotheism. The Necessity of Atheism These speeches oppose polytheism, mythology and the doctrine of demons, and advocate monotheism, ascetic morality and rationalism. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) For the ceremonial regulations were conceived partly as tokens of the judgment on Israel, partly as concessions to the stiffneckedness of the people in order to protect them from the worst evil, polytheism. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) We have to relate the idea of God, as it appeared in polytheism, with the idea as it appeared in other stages of belief. The Idea of God in Early Religions But as time goes on and men learn more about nature, they commonly become dissatisfied with polytheism as an explanation of the world and gradually discard it. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia These evidences of polytheism and fetichism in the people of Israel destroy, in the mind of the Martian, the claim of these people to have been faithful from their earliest origin to a spiritual monotheism. The Necessity of Atheism This Christianity, as it was, unequivocally excluded all polytheism, and all national religions existing in the Empire. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) That this is a remnant of polytheism ought not to be disputed. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) In that case, religion would forsake the line of polytheism, as it had previously abandoned that of fetishism. The Idea of God in Early Religions That, if I understand it aright, is the general conception of the world which modern science has substituted for polytheism. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia He was no Pagan, but a Gnostic, infected with the allegories of Grecian polytheism, and whose misfortune it was to find the name of Jesus Christ less sonorous than that of Orpheus. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The Church and its dogmatic, which inherited its estate, received along with the latter superstition, polytheism, magic, myths and the apparatus of religious magic. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) He everywhere recognised gradations tending in the same direction and rejected polytheism. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Until that time, polytheism and mythology struggled on. The Idea of God in Early Religions The religion of mankind is divided into three stages; fetichism, polytheism, and monotheism. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology They were but expressions of that monotheism which is ever present, “not in contrast to polytheism, but in living intuition in the religious sentiments.” The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Its tenacity may be explained, among other things, by the living impression of the polytheism that surrounded the communities on every side. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) This is the origin of all polytheism, which is, moreover, to some extent an imitation of Christian institutions. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) There is an infinite diversity in these facts of ritual, just as the gods of polytheism are infinite in number and kind. The Idea of God in Early Religions It is true that the popular handbooks of comparative religion quite generally teach a development of religious belief through animism, fetishism, and polytheism to monotheism. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Conditions and morals became corrupt, religion was debased, and the perfect principles of the Mosaic law were obscured in superstition and polytheism. The Promulgation of Universal Peace Conditions and morals became corrupt, religion was debased and the perfect principles of the Mosaic law were obscured in superstition and polytheism. Foundations of World Unity In this claim Origen rejected the ancient contrast between the multitude and the initiated just as he repudiated polytheism; and in this, if I see rightly, his historical greatness consists. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) In both cases, the being to whom prayer is offered is misconceived and misrepresented by polytheism and fetishism; and the misconception is due to want of discrimination and spiritual insight. The Idea of God in Early Religions This "monotheistic religion" degenerated under the influence of Babylonian polytheism. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique He attributes to Homer, and to Hesiod, the various names and distinctions of the Gods, and that endless polytheism which prevailed. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Seen through instinct and the kaleidoscope of the senses, God is multiple, and the result is polytheism and its gods without number. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry The Apologists used it—we may almost say inadvertently—to overthrow polytheism by maintaining that Christianity was the realisation of an absolutely moral theism. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Monotheism may in order of time follow upon polytheism, but it is not polytheism under another name, any more than prayer is spell under another name. The Idea of God in Early Religions The earliest of these is the stage of universal toleration which was made possible by polytheism. The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 Though far from a scientific conception of natural law, many men had become sufficiently monistic in their philosophy to see in the current hagiolatry a sort of polytheism. The Age of the Reformation The multiform rites and beliefs of polytheism were replaced by the single faith and paramount authority of the Catholic Church. Gibbon In the midst of abominable idolatry, of stupid polytheism, Mohammed proclaimed: 'There is no God but God!' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 It is something very different: it is the negation of polytheism, not another form of it. The Idea of God in Early Religions Hume asks whether polytheism really deserves the name of theism. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) The most intellectual idolatry at one shrine is apt to lose its purely intellectual character, but a genial polytheism is always bracing and platonic. Gilbert Keith Chesterton In either case, there seemed to be no escape from the charge of polytheism. The Arian Controversy A great deal of intelligence must have gone to the making up of a Greek polytheism . the expenditure of intelligence is much less lavish when people have only one God. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 In the same way, and for the same reasons, polytheism is not fetishism under another name. The Idea of God in Early Religions These then are the general principles of polytheism, founded in human nature, and little or nothing dependent on caprice or accident. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) The monotheistic form appears to be the more ancient, and that out of which antiquity in its infancy formed polytheism.... The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism His aim was not to lower the person of the Lord or to refuse him worship, but to defend that worship from the charge of polytheism. The Arian Controversy The Trinity, was it not a relic of that ineradicable desire for polytheism implanted in the human bosom? Visionaries Polytheism may, or may not, follow, in order of time, upon fetishism; but polytheism is not merely a form of fetishism. The Idea of God in Early Religions How did the further stage of theology, monotheism, arise out of polytheism? Hume (English Men of Letters Series) The idea of the only God is at the root,—it is primitive; polytheism is derivative. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Thus heathenism still held the key of the position, and constantly threatened to convict them of polytheism. The Arian Controversy Next, the incarnation of spirits produced the earliest forms of polytheism, and these were slowly classified into more concentric circles, and finally into a single hierarchical system. Myth and Science An Essay In fetishism and polytheism we see the radiative, dispersive, force of evolution manifesting itself, just as in polytheism and monotheism. The Idea of God in Early Religions They listened in wonder to condemnation of their belief in polytheism. The Days of Mohammed The people were rebellious and stiff-necked, and surrounded by polytheism and idolatry. Companion to the Bible There was little hope in an effete polytheism, still less in a corrupt and desponding society. The Arian Controversy Let us try to trace in this historic fact the classifying process at the moment when the first form of polytheism succeeds to irregular and anarchical fetishism. Myth and Science An Essay But fetishism, polytheism and monotheism are not different and successive stages of one line of evolution, following the same direction. The Idea of God in Early Religions But the unity and spirituality of God are guarded with the strongest sanctions, and nothing could be said against idolatry and polytheism now, in sterner and clearer language than was used then. The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 In the days of Abraham the worship of God had been corrupted through polytheism and idolatry, and ignorance and wickedness were again universal. Companion to the Bible Idolatry and polytheism are with iconoclastic zeal denounced as sins of the deepest dye; while the unity of the Deity is proclaimed as the grand and cardinal doctrine of the faith. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans The superstition of polytheism remained, but it had an inward tendency to more rational conceptions and principles. Myth and Science An Essay Tribes with the social institutions of kinship, art with its highest architectural development exhibited in the structure of communal dwellings, and polytheism in the worship of mythic animals and nature-gods remain. Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology In its popular and unfortunately commoner aspect it is simply polytheism, fetichism and magic. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 In Hebrew and Greek times we discover a polytheism, after a long course of development, emerging into henotheism, and finally, here and there, into monotheism. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy It is absolute pantheism, or polytheism, or an inconsistent blending of polytheism and pantheism, or atheism. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans The specific types of these fetishes naturally arise from the mental combination of images, emotions, and ideas into a whole, and these impersonations generate the various forms of anthropomorphic polytheism. Myth and Science An Essay At such times its genial philanthropy appeared to singular advantage when contrasted with the cold and selfish spirit of polytheism. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Guru Govind waged no war against polytheism but wished to found a religious commonwealth equally independent of Hindu castes and Mohammedan sultans. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 With advancing thought the ideas of polytheism later gave place to the nobler conception of monotheism. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity But was it ever heard that polytheism tolerated a dissent from a polytheistic establishment,—the belief of one God only? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) As the synthetic mental process goes on, these varied forms of polytheism are gradually united in one general but still anthropomorphic form, which is commonly called monotheism. Myth and Science An Essay Their intense attachment to the evangelical cause stood out in strange and impressive contrast with the apathy of polytheism. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution When Christianity became popular, and was threatening the overthrow of polytheism, an attempt was made to counteract its influence in the reign of Alexander Severus, who himself came from the East, by organising this worship. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Even then, however, his polytheism is of a kind which admits of a special devotion to a particular deity, who is called emphatically "his god." The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. It proceeds to assert, in a certain sense, monotheism against polytheism. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The religion of the Chaldaeans, from the very earliest times to which the monuments carry us back, was, in its outward aspect, a polytheism of a very elaborate character. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Of the religion, we only know that it was a form of polytheism; that sacrifices were made, and that Druids existed; they were soothsayers, magicians, perhaps priests, and were attendant on kings. A Short History of Scotland The complex polytheism of the monuments and the literature was not, however, the practical religion of many Egyptians. Ancient Egypt In its higher forms, it becomes polytheism, idolatry and defective philosophy. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji The religion of Africa is the universal animism or fetishism of primitive peoples, rising to polytheism and approaching monotheism chiefly, but not wholly, as a result of Christian and Islamic missions. The Negro The Aryans and Semites, while both dissatisfied with polytheism and seeking the one among the many, moved along different paths and did not reach exactly the same goal. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 As there are good and evil people in this world, so there are gods and demons in the Otherworld: we find a polytheism limited only by a polydemonism. Myths and Legends of China From polytheism then, amongst the Israelites, monotheism was conceived to have been gradually developed. Recent Developments in European Thought He wonders, indeed, until he remembers how it has itself been transformed and changed in popular substance, from lofty metaphysics and ethics into pantheism for the shorn, and into polytheism for the unshorn. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji African religion does not, however, stop with fetish, but, as in the case of other peoples, tends toward polytheism and monotheism. The Negro Semitic polytheism is mainly due to the number of tribes and localities possessing separate deities, not to the number of deities worshipped by each place and tribe. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Life, under such a system of polytheism and wild belief, is a constant scene of fears and alarms. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 It is not from polytheism that monotheism proceeds; nor does polytheism proceed from fetishism: it is from the heart of man that they and all other forms of religion emanate and radiate. Recent Developments in European Thought This restricted worship of God was accompanied by reverence for ancestors and the honoring of spirits by prayers and sacrifices, which resulted, however, neither in deification nor polytheism. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji If a Jew took up the story, he found his darling partiality to his own nation and law wounded; if a Gentile, he found his idolatry and polytheism reprobated and condemned. Evidence of Christianity I shall consider at length below this worship of Vishnu and Śiva and here will merely point out that it differs from the polytheism of the Smârtas. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 In the records of the kings of Assyria and Babylonia there is a conspicuous polytheism, yet it is significant that each king worshipped one God only. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 The forms of religion evolving, emanating and radiating from that common centre are, let us say, fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism. Recent Developments in European Thought Another faith was needed, but a faith not in conflict with the philosophy which had destroyed polytheism; and Christianity met the want, and therefore became the religion of the Greek-speaking world. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Hence in Britain there were Brythons without Druids, aborigines under the sway of Druidism, and Goidels who combined Aryan polytheism with Druidism. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Nor must it be forgotten that Philo was preaching spiritual monotheism not only to Jews, but also to the Hellenic world, for whom it was a vast bound from their naturalistic polytheism. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Nowhere," he says, "do we find stronger arguments against idolatry, nowhere has the unity of God been upheld more strenuously against the errors of polytheism, than by some of the ancient sages of India. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 If fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism radiate from a common centre, the heart of man, then the heart of man must also be regarded as the starting-point of magic. Recent Developments in European Thought The dangers of polytheism and idolatry had passed. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Several French writers saw in "Druidism" a monotheistic faith, veiled under polytheism. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The Logos idea among the Jews was a modification of intuitive and naïve monotheism; among the Greeks it was a step upwards, demanded by reason, from polytheism to a monistic view of the universe. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria "Herodotus," says Professor Rawlinson, "speaks of God as if he had never heard of polytheism." Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Buddhism, however, on the 'dispersive' view of the evolution of religion, is not the only radiation from the common centre, of which we have to take account, in addition to fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism. Recent Developments in European Thought It is a more spiritual religion than Brahmanism, for the latter has passed on into polytheism and idolatry, which Christianity has always escaped. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology This need the pagan feeling of a living divinity obviated by polytheism. Tragic Sense Of Life What is novel in it is that it represents the fading of pure polytheism and the engrafting, upon a polytheistic stock, of a speculative homoiousian tendency soon to bud out as philosophic pantheism. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow The testimony of the Greek poets shows that beneath the prevailing polytheism there remained an underlying conception of monotheistic supremacy. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Roman polytheism, which tolerated everything except the kicks administered by Polyeucte to the statue of Jupiter, gave a place to the God of Israel. The Roman Question He avoids pantheism on one side, by making God a distinct personal intelligent will; and polytheism on the other, by making him absolute, and therefore one. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology There are the pantheism of certain Hindu ascetics, the polytheism of the masses, the animism of aboriginal races, and the varieties of theism of Christians, Mahomedans, and the new Hindus respectively. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Do they give up polytheism; are they inclined to do so, or are they taught to do so? The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Yet, even Confucius could not quite succeed in banishing the idea of divine help, nor could he destroy that higher and most venerable worship which has ever survived amid all the corruptions of polytheism. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 In the earlier days of Christian work many felt that they had become Christians upon rejection of polytheism and acceptance of monotheism. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic No doubt one cause of the success of this monotheistic religion among the Greek-speaking nations was that Greek philosophy had undermined faith in Greek polytheism. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology From the rudest polytheism up to pantheism, and even to an atheistic philosophy, all is within the Hindu pale, like fantastic cloud shapes and vague mist and empty ether, all within the same sky. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Here there is no abatement in Vedic polytheism, although it is circled round with a thin mist from later teachings. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow In the Rig Veda there is little polytheism, and no idolatry. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 In the East this error arises from and rests upon its polytheism, and the accompanying theories of special national creation and peculiar national sanctity. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The good of polytheism was that it saw something divine in nature. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Take a statement of the mingling of polytheism, monotheism, and pantheism from the extreme south of India, a thousand miles away from Benares. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments A word here regarding the priority of monotheism or of polytheism. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow We come nearer still to the church of God for proofs of man's inherent tendency to polytheism. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 The universality of nature's laws was inconceivable under polytheism. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic But the unity of will and person being taken away, we have not one God, but a multitude of gods,—or polytheism. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Yet again, we repeat that such pure pantheists are very rare, and that "in India forms of pantheism, theism, and polytheism are ever interwoven with each other." New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments With the rise of species, deities and the cult of individual animals, the path towards anthropomorphization and polytheism is opened and the respect paid to animals tends to lose its strict animistic character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 The prayer is very significant as showing how the One Supreme God stands related to the subordinate gods which polytheism has introduced. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 But, anyhow, the trend of all this is to polytheism, rather as it existed in the old civilisation of paganism. The New Jerusalem But behind this incipient polytheism lurks the original monotheism,—for each of these gods, in turn, becomes the Supreme Being. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Macaulay's belief was that idolatry would not survive many years of English education, and we shall now take note how in the century the sphere of idolatry and polytheism has been limited. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments With the rise of a belief in departmental gods comes the age of polytheism; the belief in elemental spirits may still persist, but they fall into the background and receive no cult. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 The prevailing worship of pictures, images, and relics appeared in his vision as truly idolatrous as the polytheism of the heathen Koreish. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 The essence of polytheism is the worship of gods who are not God; that is, who are not necessarily the author and the authority of all things. The New Jerusalem An ultra spiritualism must become pantheism, and pantheism must go on to polytheism. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology We have seen the educated Hindu dropping polytheism, forgetting pantheism, and adopting or readopting monotheism as the basis of his religious thinking and feeling. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments In the third place, the religion has the common weakness of all polytheism. The Jesus of History It abhors polytheism, and not only proclaims the supremacy of one only true God, self-existent, the creator and upholder of all things, but it maintains that such was the teaching of the Vedas. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 In reality it is in a very special sense paganism; because it is polytheism. The New Jerusalem But when Mohammed came, the religion of the Arabs was a jumble of monotheism and polytheism,—Judaism, Christianity, idolatry, and fetichism. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology For modern enlightenment and Indian polytheism are incongruous; there is a like incongruity between Indian pantheism and the modern demand for practical reality. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments As a French scholar has said, where there is polytheism there are no false gods. The Jesus of History Nay, the same race, or tribe, passes from one phase of polytheism to another; in one instance exhibiting many of the elements and truths of natural religion, and in another almost entirely suppressing them. Sermons to the Natural Man Spiritualism also has the trend of polytheism, if it be in a form more akin to ancestor-worship. The New Jerusalem Under the profession of Islam, polytheism and idolatry have always prevailed in Arabia. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology As its theistic name implies, the Brāhma Samāj professedly represents a movement towards theism, i.e. a rise from the polytheism and idolatry of the masses and a rejection of the pantheism of Hindu philosophy. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments The tendency towards extreme exaggeration could be called a monotheistic bias in germ, whereas the correlation of different deities as independent of one another and yet existing side by side was a tendency towards polytheism. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 A hundred generations have been engaged in transmuting the monotheism with which the human race started, into the pantheism and polytheism in which the great majority of it is now involved. Sermons to the Natural Man What has survived through an age of atheism as the most indestructible would survive through an age of polytheism as the most indispensable. The New Jerusalem Now Christianity, though a monotheism, and a monotheism which has destroyed forever both polytheism and idolatry wherever it has gone, is not that of numerical unity. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Nor is it to be imagined that the Hindu polytheism, theism, and pantheism are distinguishable religious strata. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments But an intelligent reader will find here neither polytheism nor monotheism but a simple primitive stage of belief to which both of these may be said to owe their origin. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 Even Protestantism, though a much younger growth than Catholicism, shows a slight tendency towards polytheism. Elizabethan Demonology Gradually men began to reason and to think, and they refined the polytheism into the "higher" idea of one great, central, immaterial all-pervading power, which they called God. Creation and Its Records It was a new assertion of the simple unity of God, against polytheism and against idolatry. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The polytheism of the masses may thus blend with the theism which is the ordinary intellectual standpoint of the educated classes. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments He then remarks on the perfect adaptation of this primitive theology to the initial torpor of the human understanding, which it spares even the labour of creating and sustaining the facile fictions of polytheism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 The posthumous history of Francis of Assisi affords a striking illustration of this strange tendency towards polytheism. Elizabethan Demonology For over 1500 years Ancient Egypt practiced polytheism with each town having its own god. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Its polytheism carried variety to the extreme of disorder and dissipation. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Monotheistic belief a broadening wedge between pantheism and polytheism. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments They may inform inanimate objects, trees, rivers, fire, clouds, earth, sky, the great natural departments, and thence polytheism results. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Here is the raison d'être of mythologies and polytheisms. The Man Who Laughs He it was who formulated in a positive faith the wholesome reaction, which he and his kinsmen felt against the gross polytheism of Egypt. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History They have also an inchoate polytheism, 'Above Persons, Ground Persons, and Under Water Persons.' The Making of Religion Likewise, both polytheism and pantheism are inconsistent with Christian thought, which is no minor factor in the education of modern India. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Henotheism, a polytheism which assigns to one god of the pantheon superiority over the rest. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The latter was a polytheism brought close to the people through the Druids. The Glories of Ireland This type of political organization favored the growth of polytheism rather than the worship of one god. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History Major Ellis's theory is a natural result of his belief in a tangle of polytheism as 'the original state of religion.' The Making of Religion Thus the Creed really teaches polytheism, but saves orthodoxy by forbidding any one to call it by its true name. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Fechner, with his distinct earth-soul functioning as our guardian angel, seems to me clearly polytheistic; but the word 'polytheism' usually gives offence, so perhaps it is better not to use it. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy This, as distinguished from the pagan doctrine of polytheism, or a multitude of gods, is one of the two religious truths taught in Speculative Masonry, the other being the immortality of the soul. The Symbolism of Freemasonry The old polytheism was dying out in everything but in name, and there was nothing to take its place. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers Each highest deity, in Virginia or on the Gold Coast, is more or less eclipsed in popular esteem by nascent polytheism and nature worship. The Making of Religion Then farther it came across me; How very remarkable it is, that the Jews, those strict Monotheists, never seem to have attacked the apostles for polytheism! Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Whether monotheism or polytheism be the older, it is useless in our present state of knowledge to attempt to enquire. Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life In the vast but barren desert of polytheism—dark and dreary as were its gloomy domains—there were still, however, to be found some few oases of truth. The Symbolism of Freemasonry He taught that man begins with fetichism, advances to polytheism, and at last rises to monotheism. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent I therefore suggest that in an advanced polytheism, such as that of Polynesia, the evil sacrificial rites unpractised by low savages come to be attached to the worship even of the Supreme Being. The Making of Religion But it was not the Hebrew or Christian idea that was occasionally propounded; for in the ethnic mind it was rarely, if ever, regarded as inconsistent with polytheism; and consequently it verged on Pantheism. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern Without violating the sanctity of his promise, without alarming the fears of the Pagans, the artful monarch advanced, by slow and cautious steps, to undermine the irregular and decayed fabric of polytheism. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The elegant mythology of Homer gave a beautiful, and almost a regular form, to the polytheism of the ancient world. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 The beautiful joyousness of their polytheism is only a poetic modern fiction. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The doctrine which they do widely hold, and which opens to them a course tending in one or other of these directions, is polytheism culminating in the rule of one supreme divinity. The Making of Religion The necessity of a constant protest against polytheism led to a tenacious insistence on the divine unity, and the task was to reconcile this unity with the deity of Jesus Christ. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The weakness of polytheism was, in some measure, excused by the moderation of its claims; and the devotion of the Pagans was not incompatible with the most licentious scepticism. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 He replaced the Olympus of the populace by a spiritual Olympus; the material mythology by an idealistic mythology; polytheism by polyideism, if it may be so expressed—the gods by types. Initiation into Philosophy It is true that in the vast collection of religious phenomena, some are undisguisedly amatory—e.g., sex-deities and obscene rites in polytheism, and ecstatic feelings of union with the Savior in a few Christian mystics. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature He created the gods of polytheism, the gods of war, of peace, and so on. The Making of Religion What Augustin has written on this subject in The City of God, is perhaps the strongest argument ever objected to polytheism. Saint Augustin It is not credible that polytheism should stand a day upon any fair comparison of it with the religion of Christ. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra Perceiving in mythology ingenious allegories, he showed that under the name of allegories covering and containing profound ideas, all polytheism could be accepted by the reason of a Platonist, an Aristotelian, or a Stoic. Initiation into Philosophy The logical sequence of disbelief in what Mr. Emerson calls a "pistareen Providence" is a belief in pantheism or polytheism. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays This would be more plausible if we did not find Supreme Beings where there is no departmental polytheism to develop them out of. The Making of Religion Mahomet, in combating the polytheism of his country, seems to have been desirous of restoring the primitive theism of Abraham, and his son Ishmael; yet this has now seventy-two sects. The System of Nature, Volume 2 The religion of the Arabs was polytheism in many different forms, in which idol-worship was prominent; but all agreed in acknowledging one supreme God, Allah, in whose name solemn oaths were taken. Outline of Universal History But with the vices of polytheism they had also abandoned its virtues, among which toleration and religious good humour had been conspicuous. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales All the polytheism of those countries recognized each of the gods as authors alike of good and evil. The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham In yet another way, political advance produces religious degeneration, if polytheism be degeneration from the conception of one relatively supreme moral being. The Making of Religion Destroy its monastic orders, and marry the priests, and the rest is a pretty puppet-show, with the idols, and the incense, and the polytheism, and the pomp of paganism. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey With these secret schools of physiological theology, the mythical poets were doubtless in connexion, and it was these schools which prevented polytheism from producing all its natural barbarizing effects. Literary Remains, Volume 2 A confounding of God with Nature, and an incapacity of finding unity in the manifold and infinity in the individual,—these are the origin of polytheism. Literary Remains, Volume 1 The gradual evolution of the Hebrew religion from virtual polytheism to the strictest monotheism seemed peremptorily to call for a corresponding change in the writings in which the revelation underlying it was enshrined. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur The creed seems to be a nascent polytheism, subordinate to Nà-pi as supreme Maker, and to the personified Sun. The Making of Religion Such were the rites of Roman polytheism, as enacted by augurs and pontiffs, the colleagues of Cicero and Cæsar. Moral Philosophy But polytheism makes that quite a natural conclusion; and there is something almost fine in the truculent boldness with which they set their teeth for a fierce struggle. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Usually it accompanies polytheism, existing beside it on a lower plane. Homer and His Age The highest point of development that polytheism could reach is found in the conception of a monarchy or divine family, embracing all terrestrial beings, and even the whole universe. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Australia escaped polytheistic degeneracy by having no aristocracy, as in Polynesia, where aristocracy, as in early Greece, had developed polytheism. The Making of Religion Define polytheism and monotheism, giving examples of each. Early European History No wonder that, when the first generation of the conquerors had passed away, their successors lapsed into the universal polytheism, with its attendant idolatry and immorality. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII |
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