A.Word.A.Day--henotheism (fwd)
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:50:08 -0700 (MST)
I love the way the net spoon feeds this word baby...just in time since I'm
diving into "Franny" after I detach my fingers from this keyboard, will
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 00:04:20 -0500
From: Wordsmith <wsmith@wordsmith.org>
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--henotheism
henotheism (HEN-uh-thee-iz-uhm) noun
Belief in one god without denying the existence of others.
[Greek heno-, from hen, neuter of heis, one. + the (o)- + -ism.]
"On the empirical side, Lind thinks he sees an accelerating pattern of
religious indifferentism in this country; Americans, he argues, have
adopted the henotheism of `one God and many equally true religions.' But
the phenomenon Lind is trying to describe could much more accurately be
thought of as a flourishing of religious tolerance--and one, moreover,
that is morally grounded in religious convictions."
Weigel, George, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the
Fourth American Revolution. (book reviews), Commentary, 1 Jul 1995.
Pronunciation:
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