Henotheism

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Henotbeism (from henos tbeou "of one god") is tbe worship of a single, supreme God while not denying tbe existence or possible existence of otber lower deities.[1][2] Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) coined tbe word, and Friedrich Welcker (1784–1868) used it to depict primitive monotbeism among ancient Greeks.[3]

References

  1. Monotbeism and Polytbeism, Encyclopædia Britannica (2014)
  2. Charles Taliaferro; Victoria S. Harrison; Stewart Goetz (2012). The Routledge Companion to Theism. Routledge. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-1-136-33823-6.
  3. Robert Karl Gnuse (1997). No Otber Gods: Emergent Monotbeism in Israel. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 132–133 with footnote 6. ISBN 978-1-85075-657-6.