theology

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Pronunciation

• enPR: thē-ŏl'ə-jē, IPA: /θi.ˈɑ.lə.dʒi/, SAMPA: /Ti."A.l@.dZi/

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Etymology

From Old French theologie, teologie, from Latin theologia, from Ancient Greek θεολογία (theologia),see theo- + -logy.

Noun

Wikipedia theology (usually uncountable; plural theologies)

1. The study of God, or a god, or gods, and the truthfulness of religion in general.
2. An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.

Derived terms

• apophatic theology
• cataphatic theology
• theologian
• theological
• thealogy
• pantheology

Translations

study of God, or a god, or gods

Arabic: إلهيات (ar) ('ilahiyyaat) f. pl. Armenian: աստվածաբանություն (hy) (astvaçabanut’yun) Azeri: ilahiyyət (az), teologiya (az) Catalan: teologia f. Chinese: Mandarin: 神學 (zh), 神学 (zh) (shénxué) Czech: teologie (cs) f. Danish: Religionsvidenskab (da) Dutch: theologie (nl) f. Esperanto: teologio (eo) Finnish: teologia (fi) French: théologie (fr) f. German: Theologie (de) f. Greek: θεολογία (el) (theologia) f. Hebrew: תאולוגיה (he) (the'ologia) f. Hindi: धर्ममीमांसा (hi) (dharmamīmānsā), धर्मशास्त्र (hi) (dharmaśāstra) Ido: teologio (io) Italian: teologia (it) f. Japanese: 神学 (ja) (しんがく, shingaku) Korean: 신학 (ko) (sinhak) (神學 (ko)) Kurdish: îlahiyet (ku) f.

Latin: theologia (la) f. Macedonian: теологија (mk) (teológija) f. Norwegian: teologi (no) Persian: الهیات (fa) (elahiyât) Polish: teologia (pl) f. Portuguese: teologia (pt) f. Romanian: teologie (ro) f. Russian: богословие (ru) (bogoslóvije) n., теология (ru) (teológija) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: богословље (sh) n., богословија (sh) f. Roman: bogoslovlje (sh) n., bogoslovija (sh) f. Spanish: teología (es) f. Swedish: teologi (sv) Thai: เทววิทยา (th) (tâywawíttáyaa) Turkish: ilahiyat (tr), teoloji (tr) Urdu: الہیات (ur) (ilahiyāt) f. Vietnamese: thần học (vi) (神學 (vi)) Volapük: godav (vo)

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