]> 2024-06-13T11:29:21+00:00 Primordial monotheism 0 1741 englanti 2014-12-05T12:35:18Z 2456997.0245139 Primordial monotheism <P align="justify">Original monotheism was a theory connected with the evolutionist view of the development of religion ([[Evolutionism|Evolutionism]]) which considered belief in a single god to be the original form of religion. Polytheistic religions were regarded as a degeneration of this original belief. The original monotheism of the old testament, which is of the earliest origins, was based on the stories of the Bible. Original monotheism was a popular hypothesis during the Age of Romanticism in the early nineteenth century (Carl Axel [[Gottlund, C.A. (engl. ver.)|Gottlund]]; [[Fragments of Lappish Mythology|Fragments of Lappish Mythology]]). In modern times, the theory original monotheism was represented by the German linguist and scholar of comparative religion, Wilhelm Schmidt (1868 1954). It is the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church on the origin of religion. </P><BR><BR> Otsikko 102