{"id":42381,"date":"2017-12-27T05:38:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=42381"},"modified":"2017-12-06T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:40:54","slug":"making-monotheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/12\/making-monotheism.html","title":{"rendered":"Making Monotheism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A number of posts around the blogosphere have touched on this topic that has long been of great interest to me. To start with,\u00a0Mark Ganville writes in his review<\/a> of Lester Grabbe\u2019s book 1 & 2 Kings<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Grabbe traces the development of monotheistic Yahwism from a polytheistic context where Yahweh was one among many gods, a \u2018son\u2019 of El, to the monotheistic religion of the DH.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Izaak de Hulster has blogged about<\/a> the subject of his book, Figurines in Achaemenid period Yehud<\/em>, on the use of idols by monotheists in Judaea in the Persian era.<\/p>\n

Richard Beck talked about Open Theism<\/a> and whether God, as conceived of within monotheism, should be envisaged as omniscient.<\/p>\n

Daniel McClellan shared his article, \u201cCognitive Perspectives on Early Christology.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

A number of classic books related to Christology, divinity, and monotheism have recently been re-released<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Philip Clayton talks about being a Christian process theologian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To start with,\u00a0Mark Ganville writes in his review of Lester Grabbe\u2019s book 1 & 2 Kings: Grabbe traces the development of monotheistic Yahwism from a polytheistic context where Yahweh was one among many gods, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":39184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[888,1858,2750,14968,4005,4974,4976,7651,8379,14969],"class_list":["post-42381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monotheism","tag-attributes","tag-christology","tag-divinity","tag-figurines","tag-god","tag-idolatry","tag-idols","tag-monotheism","tag-omniscience","tag-open-theism"],"yoast_head":"\nMaking Monotheism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A number of posts around the blogosphere have touched on this topic that has long been of great interest to me. 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