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
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
Eschatology, literally the "study of the last", is the part of theology and philosophy concerned with the end of the world.
Existence of God edit
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
Opposition to religion edit
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