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 |
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