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• After polygenesis was soundly rejected by theologians, it was taken up with enthusiasm by many scientists.2019, S. Joshua Swamidass, The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry polygenesis
• Cone, who once called himself “the angriest theologian in America,” is still angry.2018 April 30, John Blake, “Remembering the theologian who took on the hypocrisy of the white church”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry angry
• Theologians such a Nkemnikia speak of African theology and philosophy from the perspective of “vitology.”2016, Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, Interfaith Dialogue: Global Perspectives, page 203. From the entry vitology
• Theologians who reject the inerrantist view of the Bible have pointed out several problems with it.2013, Victor I. Ezigbo, Introducing Christian Theologies, vol. 1, page 78. From the entry inerrantist
• Yesterday's heresy—the sort of thing that made orthodox theologians spit feathers—becomes today's tourist attraction.2011, Jonathan Wright, Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry spit feathers
• Said more succinctly, he is a theologian because he is a kerygmatist.2004, Deborah L. Ellens, J. Harold Ellens, Isaac Kalimi, God's Word for our World, volume 2, page 181. From the entry kerygmatist
• The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000…. From the entry millennial
• The terms 'polytheism' and 'monotheism' are best abandoned to the theologians.1999, Simon Price, “Gods, Myths and Festivals”, in Religions of the Ancient Greeks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2004…. From the entry henotheism
• Curran, who opposes the papal ban on contraception, contends theologians may legitimately dissent from noninfallible teachings.1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2020. From the entry noninfallible
• One of the latter is now a theologian here at Zikawei.1945 December, Eugene E. Fahy, “China War Diary”, in Woodstock Letters, volume LXXIV, number 4, →OCLC, page 288. From the entry Zikawei
• Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theo­logical Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling.2021 June 3, Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, “Chanequa Walker-Barnes joins Columbia Theological Seminary”, in The Christian Century, archived from…. From the entry Chanequa
• One such evangelical theologian, Helmut Franz, has categorized all theological uses of Heidegger as either eclecticism or glossism.2010, John Williams, Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Religion, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry glossism
• The Inquisition even ruined the career of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Spain's primatial see of Toledo, and a distinguished Dominican theologian.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 672. From the entry primatial
• That work has been carried on by Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox ecumenical officers and theologians engaged in interchurch dialogue.2008 January 19, Peter Steinfels, “Praying for Christian Unity, When Diversity Has Been the Answer”, in New York Times. From the entry interchurch
• The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.1994, John [Wyon] Burrow, The Historian: The Magazine for Members of the Historical Association, London: The Historical Association…. From the entry list
• The writings of the Congregationalist theologian and churchman, P.T.1975, Foundations, volume 18, page 185. From the entry antiquitarianism
• Catholic theologians explain that it must not be overliterally interpreted.1953 March 2, “Religion: Excommunication”, in Time, retrieved 26 Jun 2023. From the entry overliterally
• Many other theologians, several of them being Thomists, hold that self-subsisting Being is what constitutes the divine nature.1943, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The One God, B. Herder Book Company, page 158. From the entry aseity
• Not perhaps of the God of Nicaea, but what did these poor little quibblings and definitions of the theologians matter?1917, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 5, in The Soul of a Bishop. From the entry quibbling
• As theologian Shawn Copeland argues, "No Christian teaching has been more desecrated by slavery than the doctrine of the human person or theological anthropology."2024, Julie Hanlon Rubio, Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist?, page 127. From the entry desecrated
• Herein Oden contends that paleo-orthodox theologians should return to that truly consensual period of Christian orthodoxy and “guard the Deposit of Faith.”2015, Jason Robert Radcliff, Thomas F. Torrance and the Church Fathers, →ISBN. From the entry paleo-orthodox
• In fact, if a theologian approaches the Christ-Event with the intent to exhaustively grasp God, the Christology of the theologian is doomed to failure.2010, Victor I Ezigbo, Re-Imagining African Christologies, page 187. From the entry Christ event
• He was par excellence a theologian.2009, John Murray, “Introduction”, in John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion. From the entry par excellence
• Sayyid Qutb is quickly overtaking Reinhold Niebuhr as the theologian about whom the un- or antitheological pronounce with the most serene authority.2008 April 27, Leon Wieseltier, “The Catastrophist”, in New York Times. From the entry antitheological
• You do not find theologians demanding that we be inculturated, adopt the norms of our society, and yet that is often what is happening.1999, Timothy Radcliffe, Sing a new song: the Christian vocation, Dominican Publications, →ISBN, page 255. From the entry inculturation
• Nevertheless, I am a Christian believer, a Roman Catholic scholar—self-described as a credal trinitarian, incarnationalist, christocentrist theologian who in believing knows that which he believes.1993, Journal of Religious Studies, page 23. From the entry christocentrist
• Systematics is an effort to understand those specifically theological affirmations that the theologian holds to be true and so regards as doctrines.1990, Robert M. Doran, Theology and the Dialectics of History, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry systematics
• Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 573. From the entry noosphere
• Theologians went on quoting his definition.1978, Alexander Murray, Reason and Society in the Middle Ages, page 64. From the entry simonist
• The main units, known as the Einsatzgruppen, “special action groups,” included between five hundred and one thousand men each, many of them well educated,—lawyers, theologians, and other professionals.2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Expansion and Systematization”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 195. From the entry Einsatzgruppen
• Though most of the top clerics and university theologians were in the disciplinist camp, the opposition also had support within the church, if in general from somewhat disaffected pastors.2010, Charles Gunnoe, Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate, →ISBN. From the entry disciplinist
• August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.2005, James Martin Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God. From the entry coadjutor
• The discrimen, or pattern, that each theologian eventually chooses is his or her own distinctive construal of the discrimen that guides his or her critical theological judgements.2000, Cleophus James LaRue, The Heart of Black Preaching, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry discrimen
• And where Gerson tried to theologize astrology, that is, to render astrology acceptable to theologians, our author essays rather to astrologize theology and make theologians accept astrology.1934, Lynn Thorndike, chapter 50, in A History of Magic and Experimental Science, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, page 258. From the entry astrologize
• The new cardinal was no theologian – his approach was more homespun – but his commitment to poor people was every bit as strong as that of the liberation theologians.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry homespun

Meaning of theologian

1. noun A specialist in academic theology.
2. noun Someone who studies theology.
3. noun A theological lecturer attached to a cathedral church.

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How do you use theologian in a sentence?

Theologian is used as a noun. For example: “Seminarians are usually divided into philosophers and theologians, depending on their stage of formation.”

What is a short sentence with theologian?

“He was par excellence a theologian.”

What does theologian mean?

Theologian means a specialist in academic theology.