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." |
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