Social:Outline of theology

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to theology

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

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

Conceptions of God

Divine presence

Divine presence

God

• • As the: Devil
  • Sustainer

Singular God

• Absolute
• Brahman
• Emanationism
• God
• Logos
• Supreme Being

Binitarianism

• Binitarianism

Trinitarianism

• Trinity
• Trinitarian formula
• Athanasian Creed
• Comma Johanneum
• Consubstantiality
• Homoousian
• Hypostasis
• Perichoresis
• Shield of the Trinity
• Trinitarianism in the Church Fathers
• Trinitarian Universalism

Other views

• 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

Eschatology, literally the "study of the last", is the part of theology and philosophy concerned with the end of the world.

• Afterlife
• Apocalypticism
• Buddhist
• Christian
• Concepts of Heaven
• Doomsday films
• Ghost Dance Movement
• Ghosts
• Hindu
• Islamic
• Jewish
• Personifications of death
• Singularitarianism
• Taoist
• Zoroastrian

Existence of God

Arguments for

Arguments from

• A proper basis
• Beauty
• Consciousness
• Degree
• Desire
• Love
• Miracles
• Morality
• Reason
• Religious experience

Other arguments

• Christological
• Cosmological
• Ontological
• Pascal's wager
• Teleological
• Trademark
• Transcendental
• Witness

Arguments against

Arguments from

• Free will
• Inconsistent revelations
• Nonbelief
• Poor design

Other arguments

• God of the gaps
• Incompatible-properties argument
• Omnipotence paradox
• Problem of evil
• Problem of Hell
• Theological noncognitivism
• Transcendental argument for the existence of God
• More...

Opposition to religion

• Antireligion
• Disengagement from religion
• Secularism
• Separation of church and state

Theism

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

• • Jewish: Abrahamic prophecy
  • Angels in Judaism
  • Jewish mysticism

Resources

• Theological libraries and librarianship
• List of theology journals