In the first place, we may safely hold that the texts of Scripture quoted by so able a theologian are those which have most the appearance of being revelations to men respecting the motions of the heavenly bodies.
But how deal, I next ask, with the theologian who holds that geologic fact has been revealed to him?
Nor does the established fact of an absolute beginning of organic being seem more pregnant with important consequences to the science of the natural theologian than the fact of the peculiar order in which they begin to be.
But all its truth can do to the natural theologian will be to make him believe that the Creator bears the same relation to the whole universe as that Creator undeniably bears to every individual human body.
What would the natural theologian have to say, were the first theory true, save that God's works are even more wonderful than he always believed them to be?
Here the Assyriologist and investigating historian ceases and the theologian with all his lights and shades steps in.
In Delitzsch's case the theologian has run away with the historian, and the latter serves merely as a point of departure for the former.
I-Ching himself seems to regard the two Vehicles as alternative forms of religion, both excellent in their way, much as a Catholic theologian might impartially explain the respective advantages of the active and contemplative lives.
But for all that he is a personal deity who can be loved and worshipped and whereas Śaṅkara was a religious philosopher, Râmânuja was rather a philosophic theologian and founder of a church.
The latter chanced to exile Abu Ishac of Elvira, a noted theologian and poet, who took revenge in a bitter satire which had immense popular success.
Perhaps the most distinguished Franciscan theologian of his day was Miguel de Medina.
Clearly, then, the difference between the theologian and the naturalist is not fundamental, and evolution may be as profoundly and as particularly theistic as it is increasingly probable.
Even if we may not hope to reconcile the difference between the theologian and the naturalist, it may be well to ascertain where their real divergence begins, or ought to begin, and what it amounts to.
The word is italicized, as if to intimate that probabilities have no claims which a theologian is bound to respect.
Yet, despite all this, he was in some sense a representative progressivetheologian of the century.
The joy and confidence with which this theology could be preached, Ritschl awakened in his pupils in a degree which had not been equalled by any theologian since Schleiermacher himself.
The theologian on the one hand, and the jurist or philosopher on the other, give diametrically opposite answers.
They contained the hidden poison of a dangerous mysticism: the cardinal was too tender, too indulgent, and too weak, both as a theologian and a director.
They had not reached the height of biblical exegesis on which we find the modern theologian perched, and who tells us that Jehovah has reformed.
He is the first theologian who claims that Genesis was written by Noah, or that Noah wrote any account of the flood.
I believe that Haeckel is, to say the least, the equal of any theologian we have in this country, and the late John W.
I do not know the appropriate word to designate a theologian guilty of such an act.
If the holy writer uses general terms, an ingenious theologian can harmonize a seemingly preposterous statement with the most obdurate fact.
His publications were more numerous and highly esteemed than those of any contemporary theologian in America.
Although summoned by a power which it would have been folly to resist, the tough theologian did not surrender at discretion.
He also shows--such being the essential character of Christian Theology--how a theologian can defend his own principles against attack.
The theologian among his adherents to whom he seems to have been drawn by the strongest elective affinity was Dr.
Peter Du Moulin the elder (called Molinæus in Latin), was a French Protestant theologian of great celebrity.
And here the knowledge of the most able theologian will go a very little ways.
With that theologian I recently had a conversation on the matter of which we have just been thinking.
A scholar, he was also a man of action, a statesman of indomitable will, a theologian of surpassing acumen and enthusiasm.
If the theologian reduces the latter to bare unity, he does the same for the former.
There are good, though hardly conclusive, grounds for holding that the emperor Justinian, profound theologian and life-long champion of orthodoxy, was converted to the heretical theory in the last few months of his life.
Experts tell us that as a theologian he ranks below his master Melchor Cano; and in the annals of scholarship Luis de Leon is less conspicuous than Benito Arias Montano and than Francisco Sanchez (el Brocense).
V By his contemporaries Luis de Leon was perhaps more esteemed as a theologian or a scholar than as a man of letters.
On the contrary, he gives them profound attention, and arrives at conclusions in regard to them which even the Christian theologian must allow to contain a large measure of truth.
He might be aptly described as a theologian studying geology.
The theologian has found that he must build upon the truth and that he must establish this truth by satisfying human reason.
The smile on the face of the theologianbecame a frozen grin.
When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few.
But the ultra theologian is not satisfied with this--he wishes to destroy the liberty of the people--he wishes a recognition of his God as the source of authority, to the end that the church may become the supreme power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theologian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
