Henotheism Müller stated that henotheism means “monotheism in principle and a polytheism in fact.” He made the term a center of his criticism of Western theological and religious exceptionalism (relative to Eastern religions), focusing on a cultural dogma which held “monotheism” to be both fundamentally well-defined and inherently superior to differing conceptions of God
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