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...

discipline of religious thought that is restricted in its narrower sense, because of origination and format, to Christianity, but in its broader sense, because of its themes, to other religions. The themes of theology are God, man, the world,...

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

Study of the nature of God and the relationship of the human and divine. The term was first used in the works of Plato and other Greek philosophers to refer to the teaching of myth, but the discipline expanded within Christianity and has found...

General approaches Agnosticism · Atheism · Deism Henotheism · Ignosticism · Misotheism Monism · Monotheism · Nontheism Pandeism · Panentheism · Pantheism Polytheism · Theism · Transcendence...