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THEOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
Example:
he studied theology at Oxford
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Derivation:
theological (of or relating to or concerning theology)
theologist (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
Synonyms:
divinity; theology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("theology" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; 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 characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents)
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)
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))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theology"):
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)
Derivation:
theological (of or relating to or concerning theology)
theologist (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
Example:
Roman Catholic theology
Synonyms:
theological system; theology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
justify ((used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin)
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)
Derivation:
theological (of or relating to or concerning theology)
theologist (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
