theology

IPA: θiˈɑɫʌdʒi

(uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
(uncountable) Synonym of religious studies
(countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
(countable) A particular belief within a religion.
(uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.

Examples of "theology" in Sentences

_theology_, and this theology is a continual insult to the reason of man.
I was hired, worked there for eight years -- and decided to return to school, this time to get my Masters in theology from a Catholic institution.
I also heard a report that I am trying to track down that Clinton and Carter are going up against the Southern Baptists saying their theology is a bit too strict.
If by the term theology I understand the cognition of a primal being, that cognition is based either upon reason alone (theologia rationalis) or upon revelation (theologia revelata).
They strike me as being about how we practice as religious people, not about what we believe which, for my purposes, is the stress I'm laying on the term theology for this discussion.
The atheist who refuses to engage in such projection may well be theologically more sophisticated - although, alas, the term theology is also tainted for so many of them, that they may not believe I mean this as a compliment!
Fathers, strictly limiting the term theology to doctrine about God, distinguished it from the doctrine of His external activity, especially from the Incarnation and Redemption, which they included under the name of the "Divine economy".
I afterwards came to learn that the term theology was by them quite misunderstood, and that they had some crude conceptions that nothing was taught at Oxford but the black arts, which ridiculous idea prevailed over all the south of Scotland.