One God, Many Words and Wonders The Family of the Three Great Monotheistic Religions and Zoroastrianism

Each monotheistic religion traces itself back to a historical founder, such as Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, or farther East, Zoroaster and Nanak. Monotheism is never a continuation of something growing out of a timeless past, as we saw, for example, in Hinduism. The idea of a special revelation through a known historical figure, who at a known point in time gave an authoritative word from the one personal God, which the monotheistic faith proclaims, seems to be inseparable from monotheistic expression.