Definition of Theology

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Theology

The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life."

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Theology Quotations

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Richard Dawkins

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Henry Ward Beecher

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson

Theology Translations

theology in Dutch is theologie, godgeleerdheid
theology in German is Theologie
theology in Swedish is teologi

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