English > theology: 3 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
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| Synonym | divinity |
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| Category of | Creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence |
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| catechetical, catechetic | Of or relating to or involving catechesis |
| deadly, mortal | Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death |
| divine guidance, inspiration | (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings |
| fundamentalist, fundamentalistic | Of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism |
| limbo | (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) |
| minor, venial | warranting only temporal punishment |
| predestination, foreordination, preordination, predetermination | (theology) being determined in advance |
| purgatory | (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins |
| redemption, salvation | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil / evil |
| theanthropism | (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine |
| theology | The learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) |
| theology, theological system | A particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings |
| universalistic, universalist | Of or relating to or tending toward universalism |
| Narrower | angelology | The branch of theology that is concerned with angels |
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| apologetics | The branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines |
| ecclesiology | The branch of theology concerned with the nature and the constitution and the functions of a church |
| eschatology | The branch of theology that is concerned with such final / final / final things as death and Last Judgment |
| hermeneutics | The branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis |
| homiletics | The branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies |
| liturgics, liturgiology | The study of liturgies |
| theodicy | The branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil |
| Broader | discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick | A branch of knowledge |
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| Spanish | teología |
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| Catalan | divinitat, teologia |
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| Adjectives | theological | of or relating to or concerning theology |
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| Nouns | theologist | someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology |
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