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comparative more Abrahamic, superlative most Abrahamic
Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch. quotations examples
[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
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
Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character.
1896, James S. Kennedy, “Spiritual Development of St. Paul”, in The Methodist review, page 66
(of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham. quotations examples
[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).
2005, Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart, quoting Jacques Derrida, Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments, page 121
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.
2007, Hent De Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, page 123
Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan.
2009, Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesøy, Tuncay Kardas, The Borders of Islam, page 158
plural Abrahamics
a member of an Abrahamic religion: usually Christians and Muslims, and also Jews. examples