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Definition of Henotheist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Henotheist
Literary usage of Henotheist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1885)
"To believe in many gods and in no one as of essentially superior rank to the rest
is, according to him, to be a henotheist; to believe in one supreme god, ..."
2. The Old Testament in the Light of To-day: A Study in Moral Development by William Frederic Badè (1915)
"It follows that, like the latter, he is not a monotheist, but a henotheist.
Since they were practically contemporaries, the evidence on this point in their ..."
3. Faiths of Man: A Cyclopædia of Religions by James George Roche Forlong (1906)
"But like other ancient peoples the Egyptian was a henotheist—he selected Amen
from many other gods—and by the time of the 19th dynasty the Pantheistic stage ..."
4. A Short History of Philosophy by Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander (1908)
"We need not enter into the vexed question whether Xenophanes advocated a pure
monotheism, as Adams holds, or was, as Gomperz styles him, a henotheist,—ie a ..."
5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1880)
"... of course, personified, the worshipper thus became a henotheist, or one who
adores many gods, any one of whom may be regarded in turn as the highest. ..."
6. The Failure of the "higher Criticism" of the Bible by Emil Reich (1905)
"... Amos and Hosea addressed the Hebrews with signal success; so much so that the
Hebrews readily changed their heathenish, henotheist belief in Jahwe to a ..."
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