- Source: 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.
Definition
Ethical monotheism originated—pace any claims of priority on behalf of Zoroastrianism—within Judaism.
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. In Christianity, God is worshipped as the Trinity or according to Nontrinitarian conceptions of God. 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.
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Bibliography
Benor, Ehud (2018). Ethical Monotheism: A Philosophy of Judaism. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367892159.
Grossman, Maxine; Sommer, Benjamin D. (2011). "GOD". In Berlin, Adele (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2nd ed.). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 294–297. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199730049.001.0001. ISBN 9780199759279. 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. Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-19429-8.