Dictionary entry details
• THEOLOGY (noun)
Meaning:
The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
theology; divinity
Hypernyms ("theology" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; branch of knowledge; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)
Domain member category:
catechetic; catechetical (of or relating to or involving catechesis)
fundamentalist; fundamentalistic (of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism)
universalist; universalistic (of or relating to or tending toward universalism)
deadly; mortal (involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death)
minor; venial (warranting only temporal punishment)
theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)
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))
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theology"):
angelology (the branch of theology that is concerned with angels)
theodicy (the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil)
liturgics; liturgiology (the study of liturgies)
homiletics (the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies)
hermeneutics (the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis)
eschatology (the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and judgment; heaven and hell; the end of the world)
ecclesiology (the branch of theology concerned with the nature and the constitution and the functions of a church)
apologetics (the branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines)
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 ("theology" 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 "theology"):
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)
Meaning:
The learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
he studied theology at Oxford
Hypernyms ("theology" is a kind of...):
learned profession (one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles)
Domain category:
divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)
