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Christianity and Sikhism are monotheistic religions. This statement sometimes comes as a surprise to students who have been brought up on notions of Hindu polytheism and include Sikhs in that category. (Incidentally, this view of Hinduism is itself far from accurate but to correct it is not our task here.) Christian monotheism presents some problems for Sikhs, not so much over the Trinity as such but rather the person of Jesus. This matter will be discussed fully in a later chapter, here we need only say that the Sikh religion denies that God assumes material form, be it human or of any other kind. To quote Guru Nanak:
God has no form or features. (AG 750)
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D. Brown, All our Splendours (Fount, 1982), examines the importance of ‘Word’ in a number of religions, though, in common with many other writers, he omits Sikhism from his survey.
G. W. Briggs, Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis (Calcutta, 1938, rep. Motilal, Delhi, 1973), is still the most convenient introduction.
See J. Morley and H. Ward, Celebrating Women (Movement for the Ordination of Women and Women in Theology, 1986);
also R. R. Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk (SCM, 1983).
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Cole, W.O., Sambhi, P.S. (1993). God. In: Sikhism and Christianity. Themes in Comparative Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23049-5_3
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