Example sentences for: monotheism

How can you use “monotheism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thus, writing in The New Yorker in December 1996, Louis Menand posited the breakdown of traditional monotheism into "genetic polytheism," in which personal behavior is attributable to an individualized genetic pantheon.

  • It seems to be a way station between polytheism and monotheism, a useful concept that provides a missing link in the evolutionary process.

  • Is monotheism an inadequate word to describe basic beliefs set forth in the Old Testament?

  • Recently, while browsing through the dictionary, I came across the word henotheism , defined as “the worship of one of a group of gods, in contrast with monotheism, which teaches that only one god exists.”

  • It’s hard to imagine a faith more hostile to all idolatry, fierce in its uncompromising monotheism, and opposed to the caste system as Islam When sufi mystics or the emperor Akbar tried to create a synthesis between the two faiths, the orthodox on both sides resisted.


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