THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM
Dictionary entry overview: What does theological system mean?
• THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM (noun)
The noun THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:
1. a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
Familiarity information: THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM (noun)
Meaning:
A particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
theological system; theology
Context examples:
Jewish theology / Roman Catholic theology
Hypernyms ("theological system" is a kind of...):
system; system of rules (a complex of methods or rules governing behavior)
Domain category:
divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)
Domain member category:
emanation; procession; rise ((theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost)
foreordain; predestinate; predestine (foreordain by divine will or decree)
reprobate (abandon to eternal damnation)
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theological system"):
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)
