theologia
θεολογία
Speech about God; discourse concerning divine things.
Tagged: Catholic
Technical Meaning
The discipline that speaks of God and of all things in relation to God. The word began as a Greek term for discourse about the gods and was taken up by the fathers for Christian doctrine proper.
More Greek Terms
- apophatic — By denial or negation.
- cataphatic — By affirmation.
- homoousios — Of the same essence or substance.
- hypostasis — That which stands under; a subsistence.
- kenosis — An emptying.
- oikonomia — Household management; the stewardship of a house.
- ousia — Being; essence; substance.
- perichoresis — A going around together; mutual indwelling.
- theosis — Deification; being made god.
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