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Monotheism and the gods
How plural creators became one God: monotheism, idolatry and the plural Elohim of the Hebrew Bible.
Wiki entries 5
- Hanafiyya Hanafiyya (Arabic ٱلْحَنِيفِيَّة al-Ḥanīfiyyah, from حَنِيف ḥanīf, 'one inclined away from idolatry toward the upright primordial worship') is the…
- Idolatry Idolatry is the polemical category used by biblical, Christian, and Islamic traditions for worship directed toward images, rival powers, or…
- Monotheism Monotheism is a modern analytical category applied retrospectively to ancient traditions. It can identify genuine claims about one creator or…
- Paul Wallis Paul Anthony Wallis is an Australian author, former archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia, and the principal Anglophone voice of the…
- Plurality of Gods Plurality of Gods is the Wheel of Heaven reading that the Hebrew Bible describes many divine beings rather than one abstract God. Its basis is…
Articles 3
- The Forty Chairs The Raëlian canon asserts a bounded prophetology — forty-or-so guests at Yahweh's table, 'all beings representative of the religions created…
- Monotheism Is the Wrong Question The usual map divides religions into monotheisms, which affirm one immaterial God, and polytheisms, which multiply gods. The ancient sources do not…
- The Archdeacon and the Dragon In 2020 a serving archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia published a book arguing that the Elohim of Genesis are 'the Powerful Ones' — a…