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theology

Study of God or gods, either by reasoned deduction from the natural world (natural theology) or through divine revelation (revealed theology), as in the scriptures of Christianity, Islam, or other religions.

Other branches of theology include comparative religion (the study of the similarities and differences between faiths) and eschatology (the study of the hypothetical end of the world and afterlife).

Theological attitudes towards other faiths range from exclusivism (that one's own religion is correct and all the others wrong) to the more modern dialogue theology (promoting awareness of other religions) and relativism (arguing that different religions are separate paths to a similar goal).

Essential to theology is exegesis, the critical study of the particular religion's scriptures. From this follows historical theology, the study of the evolution of doctrine.
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Thus, at sixteen years of age, the young clerk might have held his own, in mystical theology, against a father of the church; in canonical theology, against a father of the councils; in scholastic theology, against a doctor of Sorbonne.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
In the earlier series of books containing, among others, Bosanquet's "History of Aesthetic," Pfleiderer's "Rational Theology since Kant," Albee's "History of English Utilitarianism," Bonar's "Philosophy and Political Economy," Brett's "History of Psychology," Ritchie's "Natural Rights," these objects were to a large extent effected.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
But on the following Friday he was waited upon by the Pillars of the Church, who informed him that in order to be in harmony with the New Theology and get full advantage of modern methods of Gospel interpretation they had deemed it advisable to make a change.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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