Outline of theology
The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, theology.
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities, seminaries and schools of divinity.
Apologetics[edit]
Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing.
- Bahá'í: Bahá'í apologetics
- Muslim: Muslim apologists
Conceptions of God[edit]
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Divine presence[edit]
God[edit]
Names of God[edit]
Singular God[edit]
Binitarianism[edit]
Trinitarianism[edit]
- Trinity
- Trinitarian formula
- Athanasian Creed
- Comma Johanneum
- Consubstantiality
- Homoousian
- Hypostasis
- Perichoresis
- Shield of the Trinity
- Trinitarianism in the Church Fathers
- Trinitarian Universalism
- More...
Other views[edit]
- Aristotelian view of God
- Demiurge
- Divine simplicity
- Egotheism
- Godhead (Christianity)
- Godhead (Latter Day Saints)
- Great Architect of the Universe
- Great Spirit
- Apophatic theology
- Olelbis
- Open theism
- Personal god
- Phenomenological definition of God
- Philo's view of God
- Sarav viāpak
- Taryenyawagon
- Tian
- Unmoved mover
- More...
Eschatology[edit]
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Eschatology, literally the "study of the last", is the part of theology and philosophy concerned with the end of the world.
- Afterlife
- Apocalypticism
- Buddhist
- Christian
- Concepts of Heaven
- Doomsday films
- Ghost Dance Movement
- Ghosts
- Hindu
- Islamic
- Jewish
- Personifications of death
- Singularitarianism
- Taoist
- Zoroastrian
- More
Existence of God[edit]
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Arguments for[edit]
Arguments from[edit]
- A proper basis
- Beauty
- Consciousness
- Degree
- Desire
- Love
- Miracles
- Morality
- Reason
- Religious experience
Other arguments[edit]
- Christological
- Cosmological
- Ontological
- Pascal's wager
- Teleological
- Trademark
- Transcendental
- Witness
- More...
Arguments against[edit]
Arguments from[edit]
Other arguments[edit]
- God of the gaps
- Incompatible-properties argument
- Omnipotence paradox
- Problem of evil
- Problem of Hell
- Theological noncognitivism
- Transcendental argument for the existence of God
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Opposition to religion[edit]
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Theism[edit]
Theism in the broadest sense is the belief in the existence of a god or gods. In the more specific sense used here theism refers to a particular doctrine concerning the nature of a God and its relationship to the universe.
Theologies[edit]
Seminaries and theological colleges[edit]
Resources[edit]
Practitioners[edit]
See also[edit]
- Ascetical theology
- Biblical theology
- Constructive theology
- Doctor of Divinity
- Exegesis
- Formal and material principles of theology
- Heresy
- Hierology
- History of theology
- Liberation theology
- Moral theology
- Mystical theology
- Natural theology
- Neurotheology
- Odium theologicum
- Ontological and theological perfection
- Religious philosophy
- Propitiation
- Scholasticism
- Systematic theology
- Thealogy
- Theogony
- Theological aesthetics
- Theosony