It is undoubtedly true that in Serbia, religion, if by religion is meanttheological doctrine, and adherence to ritual, has little hold upon the people.
His habit of theological reading gave him an expression of still greater gravity.
The success of the English revolution permitted men to turn from the active side of political and theological controversy to speculation and theory; and curiosity was more powerful than faith.
His Introductory Hebrew Grammar has been widely adopted as a class-book in theological colleges.
There he took the four years' theological course, and was licensed in 1856.
They steadfastly sought to eliminate the miraculous from theological belief, and to expel from the system of religious truth all debatable, difficult or mysterious articles.
At Dayton are the Union Biblical seminary, a theological school of the United Brethren in Christ, and the publishing house of the same denomination.
Arminianism had revived the rational side oftheological method.
He was a serious student, especially of anti-theistic positions, a good speaker, and a frequent contributor to Welsh theological journals.
Their sermons were not so much theological discourses, as they were sectarian stump-speeches.
At this point occurs a wide divergence between two great schools of Idealism--the Psychological, and the Theological thinkers.
The Theological view, so far as this country goes, seems to have made scant progress beyond Berkeley and a few of his clever followers.
He says:--"Just the properties of the human mind and the impossibility of explaining them, were from the most ancient times one of the main supports of spiritualism and theological systems.
But they reach it through a difference in the paths travelled over by such logic of evidence as may after all seem natural enough to a theological pleader on one side, and on the other to a scientific physicist.
By comparing this phase of Idealism with the modern doctrine of what is called the "Conditioned," its Theological interest becomes still more obvious.
The sermonizing, whether theologicalor social, is equally clumsy and obtrusive.
He wore a hair shirt next his skin; he flogged himself; he gave his life for a theological principle.
Theological controversy, although it issue in narrowness and persecution, yet has the merit of keeping alive an appreciation of high moral qualities and aims.
For many centuries all intellectual activity had been occupied with theological disputes,--how barren it is needless to say; all physical activity had been occupied in destroying or in protecting life.
The dislike of theological controversy left by the civil wars was aided by the Act of Toleration in giving the nation a religious peace, and in diverting human energy from religious speculations or emotions.
Obviously this is true of the prime theological virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Worship in the temple is no longer a call to contrition and repentance, but an organized flattery of our human nature, and the theological seminary is fast becoming a special school for investigating poverty and spreading agnosticism.
But the intrigue is discovered and Julien is packed off to a theological seminary.
Apart, however, from philosophical and theological technicalities, the profound psychological import of this nihilistic pessimism and neo-Christian romanticism is patent.
But such arguments can at the best merely have effect on the theological conception of morality as a divine ordinance descending immediately from heaven.
As, however, has been hinted before, it was the theological conception that was Nietzsche's main objective.
The conversation, if one-sided and monotonous, was at least amicable until a smouldering brand from the theological bonfire, waved to life in the kindling breeze of personality, set her ablaze.
But de Coster himself was in no sense a theological partisan, and his sympathy with the Beggarmen sprang from his enthusiasm for national liberty far more than from any bias towards the Protestant cause as such.
There they tried to convert him with many theological arguments; but these soon sent him to sleep.
Besides the peculiar notions entertained by the Hindoo relative to superior beings and the worship to be paid them, those that refer to a future state form a prominent part of their theological system.
How perilous, indeed, was the position of the theologicalexpert in the war of dialectics is seen in the case of the Doctor Fundatissimus, Egidio Colonna, better known as Egidio da Roma.
The settlement of the question, however, on so illogical a basis as this was impossible, especially in view of the restless theological dogmatism of the pope and his inflexible determination to crush all dissidence of opinion.
An even more instructive instance of the development of theological doctrine is to be found in the history of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin.
It illustrates the recklessness of theological controversy to find St. Bernard subsequently quoted as sustaining the Immaculate Conception.
And yet we have eminent theological professors asserting that the canon of the New Testament was finally settled "during the first half of the second century, within fifty years after the death of the Apostle John.
Paul's other epistles, I can easily imagine that in familiar letters to his pupils he would drop into a different style from that in which he wrote his more elaborate theological treatises.
The professors of Hebrew in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, and tutors in a large number of theological colleges, hold to the same opinion.
The strength of the doctrine lies, however, in the fact that it is a theological inference from the doctrine of God.
The last statements are copied from a volume on the Bible, prepared for popular circulation by the president of a theological seminary!
The following quotations may be instanced: "If theological views prove to have value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much.
This holds particularly when theological notions are under consideration.
If theological ideas should do this, if the notion of God, in particular, should prove to do it, how could pragmatism possibly deny God's existence?
There are also theological classes at several centers with total enrollment of 156.
The outstanding professional and collegiate institutions for Negroes are Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, and colleges in several of the principal cities of the South.
This institution, in connection with the Church of England in Canada, was incorporated in 1878, with power to affiliate with Huron Theological College and to confer Degrees in Arts, Divinity, Medicine and Law.
As the management of King's College at Toronto was in the hands of the adherents of the Church of England, it was felt that such an institution could not be made available for Presbyterian theological instruction.
This testimony, from a personal admirer and theological adherent, was rather welcome to me.
Lord Acton remained at home, and in 1874 found himself suddenly once again in the thick of a theological battle.
Henceforth, Lord Acton abandoned theological polemics, and devoted himself to his true life, the life of a student.
He does not recognise the great importance of Casaubon in religious history, or of Milton's theological treatise on the progress of his mind.
Familiar instances must have been remembered by his hearers; and they had read in the most famous theological treatise of the last generation, by what gradation of torments a Protestant ought to die.
That is a criminal matter, independent of the laws of states and churches, which no variety of theological opinion can by any means affect.
But then he is like the very genius or demon of theologicalcontroversy personified.
In his theological opinions, Mr. Reid appeared to lean to the Church of Rome, which, indeed, was most indulgent to the fairy folk.
He, in a stentorian voice, let off his theological venom.
As a rule, in most of the theological works which treat in general of the Darwinian questions, Darwinism and opposition to the Christian conception of God and creation were and are still taken as identical.
Whatever further questions may arise, belong either to the special subdivisions of natural science and philosophy, or to theological and ethical problems.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canonical; divine; ecclesiastical; religious; scholastic; schoolman
