Abrahamic

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English

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Symbols of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the Baháʼí Faith: religions considered Abrahamic (sense 2)

Etymology

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    From Abraham +‎ -ic.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/
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    • Rhymes: -æmɪk
    • Hyphenation: A‧bra‧ham‧ic

    Adjective

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    Abrahamic (not comparable)

    2. Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch. [from the early 19th century.][1]
      • 1832, Issac Cullimore, “Criteria for Determining the Accuracy of Scripture Chronology”, in The Morning watch: or, Quarterly journal on prophecy, and theological review, volume 4:
        [T]he 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”, in The Methodist review‎[1], page 66:
        Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character.
    4. (of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
      Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith are all Abrahamic religions.
      • 2005, Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart, quoting Jacques Derrida, Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments, page 121:
        [The 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, →ISBN, page 123:
        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, →ISBN, page 158:
        Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan.

    Usage notes

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    • Not all religions that revere Abraham are considered Abrahamic. The term always covers Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and often includes the Baháʼí Faith. Other faiths descended from these religions, such as Rastafari and Mandaeism, are sometimes not described as Abrahamic even if they consider Abraham holy.[2]

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    Noun

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    Abrahamic (plural Abrahamics)

    1. A member of an Abrahamic religion (usually Christians and Muslims, and also Jews).

    References

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    1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abrahamic”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
    2. ^ “Meanings of ambiguous terms beginning with the letters "A" to "R"”, in Religious Tolerance, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, 2012 June 9 (last accessed)
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