Abrahamic
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/
- US IPA: /eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/
Full definition of Abrahamic
Adjective
Abrahamic
- 1832, Issac Cullimore, Criteria for Determining the Accuracy of Scripture Chronology, The Noachic and Abrahamic churches are connected by Shem, and the other long-lived patriarchs, who existed before the apostasy of Noah's posterity, and survived it
- 1896 , James S. Kennedy , Spiritual Development of St. Paul , Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character.
- (of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
- 2005, Yvonne Sherwood and Kevin Hart, Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments, messianic does not belong properly to any Abrahamic religion (even if I may here continue “entre nous†for essential reasons of language and of place, of culture, and of provisional rhetorical and historical strategy of which I will speak later, to give to it names inscribed by the Abrahamic religions).
- 2007, Hent De Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, Most anthropologists, myself at the forefront, are doubtless incredibly naive about the nature of Christianity and provincial with respect to the depth and riches of Abrahamic-based theory for the analysis of religious phenomena more broadly no less than for philosophy.
- 2009, Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesøy, Tuncay Kardas, The Borders of Islam, Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan.
- Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i Faith are all Abrahamic religions.
Usage notes
Not all religions that revere Abraham are considered Abrahamic. The term always covers Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and often includes Bahá'Ã. Other faiths descended from these religions, such as Rastafari and Mandaeism, are sometimes not described as Abrahamic even if they consider Abraham holy.
Synonyms
- (pertaining to Abraham) Abrahamical, Ibrahimic
- (of the family of religions revering Abraham) Abrahamist, Ibrahimic, Semitic