. Term from the Greek, Θεoλoγία, (“theologia”), “the knowledge of God.” For Christians, theology proceeds from “evidence” provided by God via forms of revelation—biblical,...

Historically, the term comparative theology has been used in a variety of ways. First, it sometimes refers to a subsection of the discipline called "comparative religion" wherein the historian of religions analyzes the...

Analogy in Theology Religious discourse has been under scrutiny since ancient Greece when Anaxagoras said if oxen and dogs could paint, they would depict the gods in their own likenesses. The Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures depict the divine...

POLITICAL THEOLOGY is one in a series of attempts made by Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians since the 1960s to come to grips with the foundations of Christianity in light of the twentieth-century crisis of culture. After World War I, theology...

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THEOLOGY Sinead O'Connor (Koch Records, 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An album of biblical psalms and prophecies might be the last thing you'd expect from the Irish pop singer Sinead O'Connor. She's still best known as the singer who, during a 1992 Saturday...

Feminist Theology. By Natalie Watson. Guides to Theology Series. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003. x + 110 pp. $ 15.00 (paper). This small volume is intended and mostly useful for a general audience, as well as beginning seminarians who...

After years of watching TV shows and movies, I think I have finally gotten a grasp on Hollywood's theology and it's not a pretty picture (pun intended). It should come as no surprise to anyone that Hollywood's theology is vastly different from that of the...

Republican presidential candidate and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee says he won't discuss "intricate, nit-picky things of church doctrine," such as the role of women in the ministry, because the issues aren't relevant to the presidency.The former Arkansas governor said that while he's open to discussing...

In the following essay, Popkin reviews Newton's writings on the Bible, demonstrating how Newton analyzed the composition and nature of the Bible's books. Popkin maintains that Newton sought to present the Bible as historically accurate, and that Newton also believed the Bible contained corruptions deliberately placed there to encourage a false Trinitarian doctrine.

In the following essay, Trengove analyzes the content and scope of Newton's Observations on the Prophesies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. Trengove goes on to discuss the implications of the theological views expressed in the work, and comments on Newton's anti-Trinitarian beliefs.

In the essay below, Beauregard asserts that Roman Catholic teachings regarding sin, repentance, and salvation are central to the plot and characterization of All's Well that Ends Well. The first half of the play is concerned with the concepts of miracle and merit and the second with pilgrimage and prayer, the critic contends, and together the two parts delineate the Catholic doctrines of grace, merit, and free will.