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Перевод: polytheism

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политеизм ; многобожие
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Тезаурус:

1. There are passages of the Bible which are compatible with polytheism.
2. Mohammed is seen as someone who swept away the pagan polytheism of Mecca in favour of the idea that there is one God who is totally separate from the world.
3. These stories describe a form of religion commonly described as paganism, and represent what can clearly be understood as a type of polytheism.
4. As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism.
5. Some forms of Buddhism appear to deny belief in the existence of any god, whilst Hinduism is often associated with belief in several gods (polytheism).
6. Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be, or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism.
7. My aim is only to point out that the situation is more complex than a simple division between "Western monotheism" and "Eastern polytheism".
8. I shall consider each of these apparent differences between the Near Eastern and Indian religious traditions in turn, beginning from the issue of polytheism and monotheism.
9. Whether this is seen as a straightforward historical progression from polytheism to monotheism, or whether it is seen more as bringing out ideas implicit in the Jewish religion from the beginning, there is a clear case for identifying Judaism as a monotheistic religion despite its limited recognition of other gods.
10. The Jewish-;Christian tradition identified the gods of polytheism with subordinates of the devil, malevolent spirits entrapping their worshippers, impelling them to worship the created order (hence the images in temples where polytheists believed their gods to be resident) rather than the Creator.
11. The Christian rejection of polytheism was encapsulated in their argot for heathen cult and myth: "paganismus".
12. Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society, which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers, like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter, or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god.
13. Justin had such confidence in the rationality of the gospel that the phenomenon of unbelief had to be explained on the hypothesis of evil spirits spreading misinformation and prejudice in the interests of polytheism and superstition.