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	'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">title= Monotheism \| url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism \| encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica</ref><ref>~~{{Cite web \|url=~~ https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= January 9, 2017 \|title= monotheism \|publisher= Oxford Dictionaries</ref><ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism \|title= Monotheism \|dictionary= Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref>~~{{Cite web \|url=~~ http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism \|title=monotheism \|work= Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref><ref>Hutchinson Encyclopedia (12th edition) \|title= Monotheism \|page=644</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University\|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/\|author=William Wainwright</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />		'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">title= Monotheism \| url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism \| encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica</ref><ref>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= January 9, 2017 \|title= monotheism \|publisher= Oxford Dictionaries</ref><ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism \|title= Monotheism \|dictionary= Merriam-Webster</ref><ref>http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism \|title=monotheism \|work= Cambridge Dictionary</ref><ref>Hutchinson Encyclopedia (12th edition) \|title= Monotheism \|page=644</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University\|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/\|author=William Wainwright</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />

	Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics\|volume=VIII\|page=810 \|url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols\|access-date=Jan 21, 2016</ref>		Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics\|volume=VIII\|page=810 \|url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols\|access-date=Jan 21, 2016</ref>

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	'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">title= Monotheism \| url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism \| encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= January 9, 2017 \|title= monotheism \|publisher= Oxford Dictionaries</ref><ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism \|title= Monotheism \|dictionary= Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism \|title=monotheism \|work= Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref><ref>Hutchinson Encyclopedia (12th edition) \|title= Monotheism \|page=644</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford~~: [[Organization~~:Oxford University Press~~\|Oxford University Press]]~~.</ref><ref>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University\|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/\|author=William Wainwright</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />		'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">title= Monotheism \| url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism \| encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= January 9, 2017 \|title= monotheism \|publisher= Oxford Dictionaries</ref><ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism \|title= Monotheism \|dictionary= Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism \|title=monotheism \|work= Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref><ref>Hutchinson Encyclopedia (12th edition) \|title= Monotheism \|page=644</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University\|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/\|author=William Wainwright</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />

	Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics\|volume=VIII\|page=810 \|url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols\|access-date=Jan 21, 2016</ref>		Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics\|volume=VIII\|page=810 \|url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols\|access-date=Jan 21, 2016</ref>

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	'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">~~{{cite encyclopedia \|~~ title= Monotheism \| url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism \| encyclopedia= [[Encyclopædia Britannica~~]]}}~~</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= January 9, 2017 \|title= monotheism \|publisher= Oxford Dictionaries}}</ref><ref>~~{{cite dictionary \|url=~~ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism \|title= Monotheism \|dictionary= Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism \|title=monotheism \|work= Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref><ref>~~{{Cite book \|publisher=[[~~Hutchinson Encyclopedia]] (12th edition) \|title= Monotheism \|page=644}}</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: [[Organization:Oxford University Press\|Oxford University Press]].</ref><ref>~~{{Cite encyclopedia\|year=2018\|title=Monotheism\|encyclopedia=[[~~Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]\|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University\|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/\|author=William Wainwright}}</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />		'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">title= Monotheism \| url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism \| encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= January 9, 2017 \|title= monotheism \|publisher= Oxford Dictionaries</ref><ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism \|title= Monotheism \|dictionary= Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url= http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism \|title=monotheism \|work= Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref><ref>Hutchinson Encyclopedia (12th edition) \|title= Monotheism \|page=644</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: [[Organization:Oxford University Press\|Oxford University Press]].</ref><ref>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University\|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/\|author=William Wainwright</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />

	Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>~~{{cite encyclopedia \|last=Mackintosh\|first=Robert\|year=1916\|title=Monolatry and Henotheism\|encyclopedia=~~Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics\|volume=VIII\|page=810 \|url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols\|access-date=Jan 21, 2016}}</ref>		Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics\|volume=VIII\|page=810 \|url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols\|access-date=Jan 21, 2016</ref>

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'''Monotheism''' is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as [[God]].<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica">{{cite encyclopedia | title= Monotheism | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/monotheism | encyclopedia= [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170109022652/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/monotheism |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 9, 2017 |title= monotheism |publisher= Oxford Dictionaries}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |url= https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monotheism |title= Monotheism |dictionary= Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monotheism |title=monotheism |work= Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |publisher=[[Hutchinson Encyclopedia]] (12th edition) |title= Monotheism |page=644}}</ref><ref name="odccmono">Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: [[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]].</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|year=2018|title=Monotheism|encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/|author=William Wainwright}}</ref> A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.<ref name="EncyclopædiaBritannica" />

Monotheism is distinguished from [[henotheism]], a religious system in which the believer worships one God without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and [[monolatrism]], the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.<ref>Frank E. Eakin, Jr. ''The Religion and Culture of Israel'' (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971), 70.</ref> The term ''[[monolatry]]'' was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Mackintosh|first=Robert|year=1916|title=Monolatry and Henotheism|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics|volume=VIII|page=810 |url=https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols|access-date=Jan 21, 2016}}</ref>

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