Ethical monotheism
Ethical monotheism is a form of exclusive monotheism in which God is believed to be the only god as well as the source for one's standards of morality, guiding humanity through ethical principles.[1]
Definition
Ethical monotheism originated - pace any claims of priority on behalf of Zoroastrianism[2] - within Judaism.[1][3][4][5] The concept is present in various other monotheistic religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, Sikhism, and Islam. All of these monotheistic religions include the belief in one Supreme Being as the ultimate authority and creator of the universe.[6] In Christianity, God is worshipped as the Trinity or according to Nontrinitarian conceptions of God.[7] In monotheistic religions, other deities are variously considered to be false or demonic, and it is believed that any other gods cannot be compared to the one that they respectively regard as the only true God.[8][9][10][11]
See also
- Argument from morality
- Atenism
- Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion
- Baháʼí moral teachings
- Christian ethics
- Comparative religion
- Demiurge
- Dhimmi
- Dystheism
- Evil God challenge
- God in Abrahamic religions
- God in Sikhism
- God in Zoroastrianism
- Jewish ethics
- Judeo-Christian ethics
- Maltheism
- Moralistic therapeutic deism
- Morality in Islam
- Natural religion
- Outline of theology
- Problem of evil
- Problem of Hell
- Seven Laws of Noah
- Ger toshav (resident alien)
- Noahidism
- Theodicy
- Urmonotheismus (primitive monotheism)
- Violence in the Bible
- Violence in the Quran
References
- ^ a b "Jewish Concepts: God". Jewish Virtual Library. American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE). 2021 [2014]. Archived from the original on 12 April 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- ^ sought to contextualize Zoroastrians in the global history of religions. He presented Zoroastrianism as the peak of the evolutionary ladder, for he argued that Ahura Mazda revealed the world's first ethical monotheism to the prophet Zoroaster.
- ^ Weber Bederman, Diane (19 May 2014). "The True Meaning of Ethical Monotheism". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ "CORE ETHICAL TEACHINGS OF JUDAISM". ijs.org.au. Ian Lacey and Josie Lacey. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- Solomon Formstecher (1808-1889) conceived of God as the spirit of the world, a concept derived from Hegel. God is completely free, and as freedom is a precondition for moral activity, God is the perfect ethical being. Leo Baeck (1873-1956) presented Judaism as, essentially, ethical monotheism, suggesting that the belief in one God–Judaism's fundamental innovation–is equivalent to the belief in a single source of moral law.(1878-1965), eschewed Cohen's reliance on reason and rooted their philosophies in the experiential.
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was also, originally, concerned with the ethical implications of God. In his early rationalistic thought, he presented God as the "idea" that guarantees morality. Cohen's later work, however, was more traditional from a Jewish point of view, and he became more concerned with the reality of God and less concerned with the "idea" of God. Cohen's students, Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1919) and Martin Buber - OCLC 1565785.
- Jesus Christ retains highest respect as a spiritual and moral teacher of unparalleled insight and sensitivity, but he is not regarded as divine, or at least his divine nature is not on the same level as the singular and unique Creator God.
- ISBN 978-90-04-46847-4.
- (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- Kopelman Foundation. Archivedfrom the original on 4 May 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ISBN 978-90-04-16121-4.
Bibliography
- Benor, Ehud (2018). Ethical Monotheism: A Philosophy of Judaism. ISBN 9780367892159.
- Grossman, Maxine; Sommer, Benjamin D. (2011). "GOD". In LCCN 2010035774.
- Tzvi Langermann, Y., ed. (2011). Monotheism & Ethics: Historical and Contemporary Intersections among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Studies on the Children of Abraham. Vol. 2. ISBN 978-90-04-19429-8.