theology

Noun
  1. The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth (synset 106191860)
    associated with:
    • redemption, salvation - (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
    • creation - (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
    • theology - the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
    • limbo - (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
    • 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
    • divine guidance, inspiration - (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
    • theanthropism - (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine
    • foreordination, predestination, predetermination, preordination - (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
    • theological system, theology - a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
    • minor, venial - warranting only temporal punishment
    • deadly, mortal - involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
    • universalist, universalistic - of or relating to or tending toward universalism
    • fundamentalist, fundamentalistic - of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents
    • catechetic, catechetical - of or relating to or involving catechesis
    is a type of: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field - a branch of knowledge
    subtypes:
    • angelology - the branch of theology that is concerned with angels
    • 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 things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind
    • 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
    same as: divinity
  2. A particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings (synset 106193615)
    "Jewish theology"; "Roman Catholic theology"
    referred to in: divinity, theology - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
    associated with:
    is a type of: system, system of rules - a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
    subtypes:
    • christian theology - the teachings of Christian churches
    • liberation theology - a form of Christian theology (developed by South American Roman Catholics) that emphasizes social and political liberation as the anticipation of ultimate salvation
    • natural theology - a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
    same as: theological system
  3. The learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) (synset 100615260)
    "he studied theology at Oxford"
    referred to in: divinity, theology - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
    is a type of: learned profession - one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles

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