RELG 1010 Midterm: Essay Outlines test 1

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Religion-General Religion
• Course: RELG 1010
• Professor: Warren Heather

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Judaism, christianity, and islam claim to be monotheistic faiths. Discuss the development of monotheism in relation to moses and the torah, the early church"s idea of the trinity, and muhammad and the quran. Covenant with moses to free hebrew slaves and bring them to the promised land: torah c. i) the torah is significant because it defines how to live faithfully by y h c. ii) By the torah there is only one god who is god: wavering in faith d. i) wavering during period before moses, city states polytheistic d. ii) Syncretism when reaching israel, religion of the israelites and canaanites that was. This was tempting to the hebrews: early church"s idea of the trinity, doctrine of the trinity has 3 parts: a. i) human nature (a. i. 1) Belief that divine aid was needed to correct for sin a. ii) Christ is what fixed humans a. iii) ethics (a. iii. 1)