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THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Apologetics/polemics : studying Christian theology as it compares to non-Christian worldviews in order to defend the faith and challenge beliefs that lie in contrast with Christianity
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Biblical hermeneutics : interpretation of the Bible, often with particular emphasis on the nature and constraints of contemporary interpretation
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Biblical studies : interpretation of the Bible, often with particular emphasis on historical-critical investigation
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Biblical theology : interpretation of the Bible, often with particular emphasis on links between biblical texts and the topics of systematic or dogmatic theology^[6]
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Constructive theology : generally another name for systematic theology; also specifically a postmodernist approach to systematic theology, applying (among other things) feminist theory, queer theory, deconstructionism, and hermeneutics to theological topics
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Dogmatic theology : studying theology (or dogma) as it developed in different church denominations
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Ecumenical theology : comparing the doctrines of the diverse churches (such as Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and the various Protestant denominations) with the goal of promoting unity among them
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Exegesis : interpretation of the Bible
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Historical theology : studying Christian theology via the thoughts of other Christians throughout the centuries^[6]
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Homiletics : in theology the application of general principles of rhetoric to public preaching
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Moral theology : explores the moral and ethical dimensions of the religious life
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Natural theology : the discussion of those aspects of theology that can be investigated without the help of revelation scriptures or tradition (sometimes contrasted with "positive theology")
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Patristics or patrology—studies the teaching of Church Fathers, or the development of Christian ideas and practice in the period of the Church Fathers
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Philosophical theology : the use of philosophical methods in developing or analyzing theological concepts^[6]
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Pragmatic or practical theology : studying theology as it relates to everyday living and service to God, including serving as a religious minister
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Spiritual theology—studying theology as a means to orthopraxy : Scripture and tradition are both used as guides for spiritual growth and discipline
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Systematic theology (doctrinal theology, dogmatic theology or philosophical theology)—focused on the attempt to arrange and interpret the ideas current in the religion. This is also associated with constructive theology
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Theological aesthetics : interdisciplinary study of theology and aesthetics / the arts
THEOLOGY SUBDIVISION	Theological hermeneutics : the study of the manner of construction of theological formulations. Related to theological methodology.
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Bible - the nature and means of its inspiration, etc.; including hermeneutics (the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts and the topic of Biblical law in Christianity)
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Eschatology - the study of the last things, or end times. Covers subjects such as death and the afterlife, the end of history, the end of the world, the last judgment, the nature of hope and progress, etc.
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Christology : the study of Jesus Christ, of his nature(s), and of the relationship between his divinity and humanity;
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Creation myths
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Divine providence : the study of sovereignty, superintendence, or agency of God over events in people's lives and throughout history.
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Ecclesiology (sometimes a subsection of missiology)—the study of the Christian Church, including the institutional structure, sacraments and practices (especially the worship of God) thereof
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Mariology : area of theology concerned with Mary, the Mother of Christ.
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Missiology (sometimes a subsection of ecclesiology)—God's will in the world, missions, evangelism, etc.
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Pneumatology : the study of the Holy Spirit, sometimes also 'geist' as in Hegelianism and other philosophico-theological systems
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Soteriology : the study of the nature and means of salvation. May include Hamartiology (the study of sin), Law and Gospel (the study of the relationship between Divine Law and Divine Grace, justification, sanctification
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Theological anthropology : the study of humanity, especially as it relates to the divine
THEOLOGY MAJOR TOPICS	Theology Proper : the study of God's attributes, nature, and relation to the world. May include: Theodicy : attempts at reconciling the existence of evil and suffering in the world with the nature and justice of God; Apophatic theology : negative theology which seeks to describe God by negation (e.g., immutable, impassible ). It is the discussion of what God is not, or the investigation of how language about God breaks down (see the nature of God in Western theology). Apophatic theology often is contrasted with "Cataphatic theology."
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-EXEGETICAL	Exegetical theology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-EXEGETICAL	Biblical studies (analysis of the contents of Scripture)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-EXEGETICAL	Biblical introduction (biblical criticism that studies the origins of the Bible^[7])
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-EXEGETICAL	Canonics (inquiry into how the different books of the Bible came to be collected together)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-EXEGETICAL	Biblical theology (inquiry into how divine revelation progressed over the course of the Bible).
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	Historical theology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Patristic Period (1st through 8th centuries)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Ante-Nicene Fathers (1st to 3rd centuries)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Nicene Fathers (4th century)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Post-Nicene Fathers (5th to 8th centuries)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Middle Ages (8th to 16th centuries)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Reformation and Counter-Reformation (16th to 18th centuries)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-HISTORICAL	The Modern Period (18th to 21st centuries)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Systematic theology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Prolegomena (first principles)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Theology Proper
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	The existence of God
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	The attributes of God
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	The Trinity
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Creation
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Divine Providence
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Doctrine of Man (theological anthropology)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Christology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Soteriology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Justification
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Sanctification
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Pneumatology (doctrine of the Holy Spirit)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Ecclesiology (doctrine of the Church)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-SYSTEMATIC	Eschatology and the afterlife.
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Practical theology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Moral theology (Christian ethics and casuistry)
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Ecclesiology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Pastoral theology
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Liturgics
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Homiletics
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Christian education
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Christian counseling
THEOLOGY TRADITIONAL-PRACTICAL	Missiology
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Biblical canon (involvement of Pope Damasus I [b.305]);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Absolution (sacerdotal remittance of sin);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	The apostolic succession (i.e., of bishops and/or the Pope from the original Apostles);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Christology;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Ecclesiology since Vatican II;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Infant Baptism (as first mentioned in Didache);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Ecumenism (the move to reunite churches);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Ecumenical Councils (as means to bring about change and/or reform);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Icon veneration;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	The Immaculate Conception of Mary;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Real Presence;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Liturgy since Vatican II;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Models of the Church (Avery Dulles);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Moral Theology/Ethics;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Natural Law;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Indulgences (i.e., remissions by the Church of some penalties for sin);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Mary (Mary as Theotokos [i.e., in Greek, "God-bearer" or "Mother of God"]; as perpetually virgin; the Assumption of Mary);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	The Pope (i.e., belief that the Pope is the successor of St. Peter, the "rock" on which the Church is built, and therefore the infallible head of Christendom);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Purgatory (a "holding place" after death where souls are purified before entering heaven);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Sacerdotalism (priesthood as intermediary and sacred office; also see priesthood (Catholic Church), Mass (liturgy), and priesthood in Vatican II);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	The Sacraments; Transubstantiation; Fermentum;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Sainthood, canonization and beatification;
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Papal Infallibility (the Pope being infallible in matters of religion and morality);
THEOLOGY ROMAN-CATHOLIC	Tradition (i.e., its authority relative to Scripture and role of Tradition in Church Councils).
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Alogi : rejected the doctrine of the Logos
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Arianism : doctrines regarding Christ's divinity;
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Donatism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Ebionitism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Gnosticism : Generally rejected the goodness of the physical to emphasize the spiritual, also emphasized "hidden teachings."
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Judaizers
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Manichaeism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Marcionism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Monarchianism : doctrines regarding Christ's divinity
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Monophysitism : doctrines regarding Christ's divinity
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Montanism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Nazarene (sect)
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Nicolationism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Nontrinitarianism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Novatianism
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Pelagianism : denial of original sin and helplessness of sinner to save himself, strong affirmation of libertarian free will (see also Semi-Pelagianism)
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Quartodecimanism : Easter controversy
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Sabellianism : doctrines regarding the Trinity, also known as "modalism."
THEOLOGY CONTOVERSIAL-MOVEMENTS	Simonianism
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Adventism : Typified by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Anabaptism
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Anglicanism
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Anglo-Catholicism : High church theology of Anglicanism.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Arminianism : Reaction to Calvinist soteriology, which affirms man's freedom to accept or reject God's gift of salvation; identified with Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius, developed by Hugo Grotius, defended by the Remonstrants, and popularized by John Wesley. Key doctrine of Anglican and Methodist churches, adopted by many Baptists and some Congregationalists.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Brethrenism: Anabaptist-Pietist, with Open and Exclusive streams.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Calvinism : System of soteriology advanced by French Reformer John Calvin, which espouses Augustinian views on election and reprobation; stresses absolute predestination, the sovereignty of God and the inability of man to effect his own salvation by believing the Gospel prior to regeneration; principle doctrines are often summarized by the acronym TULIP (see Canons of Dort).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Charismaticism : Movement in many Protestant and some Catholic churches that emphasizes the gifts of the Spirit and the continual working of the Holy Spirit within the body of Christ; often associated with glossolalia (i.e., speaking in tongues) and divine healing.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Congregationalism : Form of governance used in Congregationalist, Baptist, and Pentecostal churches in which each congregation is self-governing and independent of all others.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Counter-Reformation (or Catholic Reformation): The Roman Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation (see also Council of Trent).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Creation Spirituality : Panentheist theology.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Deism : The general doctrine that no faith is necessary for justified belief in God's existence and/or the doctrine that God does not intervene in earthly affairs (contrasts with Fideism).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Dispensationalism : Belief in a conservative, Biblically literalist hermeneutic and philosophy of history that, by stressing the dichotomy between Israel and the Church, rejects supersessionism (commonly referred to as "replacement theology").
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Evangelicalism : Typically conservative, predominantly Protestant outlook that prioritizes evangelism above all or most other activities of the Church (see also neo-evangelicalism).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Fideism : The doctrine that faith is irrational, that God's existence transcends logic, and that all knowledge of God is on the basis of faith (contrasts with Deism).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Latitudinarianism: Broad church theology of Anglicanism.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Liberalism : Belief in interpreting the Bible to allow for the maximum amount of individual freedom.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Low church : Puritanical / Evangelical theology of Anglicanism.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Methodism : Form of church governance and doctrine used in the Methodist Church.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Modernism : Belief that truth changes, so doctrine must evolve in light of new information or trends.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism): Belief that the Book of Mormon and others to be additional divine scriptures; belief in living prophets; generally reject the Nicene creed and other early creeds.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	New Thought : Movement based on 19th century New England belief in positive thinking. Several denominations arose from it including Unity Church, and Religious Science.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Nonconformism : Advocacy of religious liberty; includes Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists and Salvationists.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Nontrinitarianism : Rejection of the doctrine of Trinity.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Open Theism : A rejection of the exhaustive foreknowledge of God, by attributing it to Greek philosophy.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Pentecostalism
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Pietism : A stream of Lutheranism placing renewed emphasis on the Bible and a universal priesthood of all believers.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Presbyterianism : Form of governance used in Presbyterian and Reformed churches.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Puritanism: Movement to cleanse Episcopalianism of any "ritualistic" aspects.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Supersessionism : Belief that the Christian Church, the body of Christ, is the only elect people of God in the new covenant age (see also covenant theology).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Restoration Movement : 19th century attempt to return to a New Testament model of the Church.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Restorationism (Christian primitivism) : The doctrine that most of the modern Church is apostate; includes the Millerites, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Latter Day Saints.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Salvation Army : An offshoot of the Methodist Church known for its charitable activities
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Tractarianism : Oxford Movement. It led to Anglo-Catholicism.
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Ultramontanism : A movement within 19th-century Roman Catholicism to emphasize papal authority, particularly in the wake of the French Revolution and the secularization of the state
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Unification Church
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Unitarianism : Rejects a holy "Trinity" and also the divinity of Christ, with some exceptions (see modalism).
THEOLOGY POST-REFORMATION	Universalism : In various forms, the belief that all people will ultimately be reconciled with God; most famously defended by Origen.
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Black theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Anarchism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Christian fundamentalism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Covenant Theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Dalit theology (a form of liberation theology developed in India)
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Dispensationalism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Orthodox Christianity
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Emerging church
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Evangelicalism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Feminist theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Fundamentalism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Holocaust theology (In response to the horrors of the Holocaust especially in relation to Theodicy)
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Liberal theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Liberation theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Lutheranism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Methodism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Narrative theology : studying a narrative presentation of the faith rather than dogmatic development.
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Neo-orthodoxy (also known as "dialectical theology" and "crisis theology", stemming from the works of Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth)
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	New Church
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	New Covenant Theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Paleo-Orthodoxy
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Pentecostalism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Personalism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Postliberal theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Postmodern theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Process theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Progressive theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Prosperity theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Queer Theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Quakerism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Restoration Movement
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Revisionist theology
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Roman Catholic Christianity
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Thomism
THEOLOGY CONTEMPORARY-MOVEMENTS	Transcendental Theology