In this essay, Edward Butler discussed four tactics that have been used historically to deny the existence and validity of polytheistic worship and to promote the idea of the supremacy and inevitability of monotheism.
Abstract The ecological wisdom of the world’s indigenous polytheisms requires a properly polytheistic conceptual framework as a bridge to the global philosophical and practical environmental discourse, in place of the…
The role of the concept of bráhman in Indian theology and philosophy is frequently adduced as a reason why Hinduism should not be regarded as polytheistic. The present essay attempts…
Abstract In henadological Platonism, the significance of “the One” is understood to lie, not in an eminent singular entity, but in the modes of unity and the ways of being…
Polytheist, Platonist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Edward P. Butler received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in 2004 for his dissertation “The Metaphysics of Polytheism in Proclus”. He has taught at the New School and at Montclair State University and has published in more than a dozen academic journals, including Dionysius, Méthexis and Epoché, and is an associate editor at Walking the Worlds: A Biannual Journal of Polytheism and Spirit work and the journal Socrates. You can check his website, Henadology: Philosophy and Theology where many of his publications are available and which also features his online Theological Encyclopedia of the Goddesses and Gods of the Ancient Egyptians.
