30,474
edits
Zarathustra/es: Difference between revisions
Created page with "Poco después de su primera visión, Zaratustra se convirtió en el portavoz de Ahura Mazda y comenzó a proclamar su mensaje."
No edit summary |
(Created page with "Poco después de su primera visión, Zaratustra se convirtió en el portavoz de Ahura Mazda y comenzó a proclamar su mensaje.") |
||
| Line 56: | Line 56: | ||
Some scholars assert that Zarathustra was not a strict monotheist but a henotheist, that is, one who worships one God but does not deny the existence of others. This is a technical distinction. As David Bradley, author of ''A Guide to the World’s Religions'', notes, “[Zarathustra] was a practicing monotheist in the same way that Moses was.”<ref>David G. Bradley, ''A Guide to the World’s Religions'' (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), p. 40.</ref> Bradley thinks that Moses knew of the existence of lesser gods but insisted on the necessity of siding with the true God against all other gods.<ref>Ibid.</ref> | Some scholars assert that Zarathustra was not a strict monotheist but a henotheist, that is, one who worships one God but does not deny the existence of others. This is a technical distinction. As David Bradley, author of ''A Guide to the World’s Religions'', notes, “[Zarathustra] was a practicing monotheist in the same way that Moses was.”<ref>David G. Bradley, ''A Guide to the World’s Religions'' (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), p. 40.</ref> Bradley thinks that Moses knew of the existence of lesser gods but insisted on the necessity of siding with the true God against all other gods.<ref>Ibid.</ref> | ||
Poco después de su primera visión, Zaratustra se convirtió en el portavoz de Ahura Mazda y comenzó a proclamar su mensaje. | |||
According to Simmons, Zarathustra instituted a religious reform that was more far-reaching and more radical than Martin Luther’s challenge of the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>Telephone interview with H. Michael Simmons, Center for Zoroastrian Research, 28 June 1992.</ref> | According to Simmons, Zarathustra instituted a religious reform that was more far-reaching and more radical than Martin Luther’s challenge of the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>Telephone interview with H. Michael Simmons, Center for Zoroastrian Research, 28 June 1992.</ref> | ||