theology

English

Etymology

From Middle English theologie, from Middle French theologie, from Old French theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek θεολογία (theología), from θεολόγος (theológos, adjective), from θεός (theós) + λόγος (lógos). Surface analysis is theo- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thē-ŏl'ə-jē, IPA^(key): /θi.ˈɒ.lə.dʒi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

theology (usually uncountable, plural theologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
2. (countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
3. (uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.
   • 1986 December 9, Seymour, Jim, “In plain English”, in PC Mag‎^[1], volume 5, number 21, Ziff Davis, ISSN 0888-8507, page 96:

     While those folks are caught up in theological arguments about LISP versus PROLOG, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:theology.

Hyponyms

• cosmotheology
• feminist theology
• liberation theology
• pantheology
• prosperity theology
• pyrotheology
• Thomism

 

Derived terms

• theologian
• theologic
• theological
• theologically
• theologise
• theologist
• theologize

 

Related terms

• thealogian
• thealogy
• theologoumenon
• theurgy

 

Translations

study of God, or a god, or gods

• Arabic: إِلَهِيَّات‎ f pl (ʾilahiyyāt)
• Armenian: աստվածաբանություն (hy) (astvacabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: teoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: ilahiyyat, teologiya
• Belarusian: багасло́ўе n (bahaslóŭje), тэало́гія f (tealóhija)
• Bulgarian: богосло́вие (bg) n (bogoslóvie), теоло́гия (bg) f (teológija)
• Catalan: teologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神學 (zh), 神学 (zh) (shénxué)

• Czech: teologie (cs) f
• Danish: teologi (da) c
• Dutch: theologie (nl) f, godgeleerdheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: teologio (eo), dioscienco
• Finnish: teologia (fi)
• French: théologie (fr) f
• Galician: teoloxía f
• German: Theologie (de) f
• Greek: θεολογία (el) f (theología)

  Ancient: θεολογία f (theología)

• Hebrew: תאולוגיה \ תֵּאוֹלוֹגיָה‎ f (teológya)
• Hindi: धर्ममीमांसा (dharmamīmānsā), धर्मशास्त्र (hi) (dharmaśāstra)
• Hungarian: teológia (hu), hittudomány (hu)
• Ido: teologio (io)
• Indonesian: teologi (id)
• Italian: teologia (it) f
• Japanese: 神学 (ja) (しんがく, shingaku)
• Kazakh: кұдайтану (kudaytanw)
• Khmer: សាសនវិទ្យា (saasa’na’ vityie)
• Korean: 신학(神學) (ko) (sinhak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خواناسی‎ (ku) (xwanasî)

  Northern Kurdish: îlahiyet (ku) f

• Latin: theologia f
• Latvian: teoloģija f
• Lithuanian: teologija (lt) f
• Macedonian: теологија f (teologija), богословие n (bogoslovie)
• Malay: kaji tuhan, teologi
• Maltese: teoloġija f
• Norwegian: teologi
• Ottoman Turkish: الهیات‎
• Persian: الهیات‎ (fa) (elahiyât)
• Polish: teologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: teologia (pt) f
• Romanian: teologie (ro) f
• Russian: богосло́вие (ru) n (bogoslóvije), теоло́гия (ru) f (teológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богословље n, богословија f

  Roman: bogoslovlje (sh) n, bogoslovija (sh) f

• Slovak: teológia (sk) f
• Spanish: teología (es) f
• Swedish: teologi (sv)
• Tagalog: bathalaan
• Thai: เทววิทยา (th) (tâywawíttáyaa)
• Turkish: ilahiyat (tr), teoloji (tr), tanrı bilimi (tr)
• Ukrainian: богосло́в'я (uk) n (bohoslóvʺja), богослі́в'я n (bohoslívʺja), теоло́гія (uk) f (teolóhija)
• Urdu: الہیات‎ f (ilahiyāt)
• Uzbek: ilohiyot (uz)
• Vietnamese: thần học (vi) (神學)
• Volapük: Godav (vo), godav (vo)
• Welsh: diwinyddiaeth (cy) f
• Yiddish: טעאָלאָגיע‎ f (teologye)

References

• theology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “theology” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “theology, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2015-03-19.
• Walter W. Skeat, editor (1910), “Theology”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new edition, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, OCLC 582746570, page 640.
• "theology" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

Anagrams

• ethology