How to Use theological in a Sentence
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Mason doesn’t think the church has to be in such a theological bind.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022 -
So much of the theological parsing may be left up to the jury.
— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022 -
In Luther’s time, the dispute centered on the role of Scripture in the theological life of Christians.
— Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018 -
The 3 French hens are Faith, Hope and Charity, the theological virtues.
— Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022 -
The 3 French hens are Faith, Hope, and Charity, the theological virtues.
— Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2020 -
The parchment on which the poem was written was cut up and reused as binding in a Latin theological text.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2019 -
There is evil in the theological sense; there is evil in the quotidian sense.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019 -
But things quickly take a turn as Reed engages the girls in theological debates while the lights go out, and the front door locks and refuses to budge.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024 -
Smith does not think of the shootings in Las Vegas only in theological terms.
— Daniel Burke, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017 -
As the theological interpretation of Columbine has shown, the line between the two can be very thin.
— Peter Manseau, The New Republic, 5 June 2020 -
The sacrament is more than a set of theological beliefs.
— New York Times, 26 June 2021 -
Not all Christians agree with the theological views of Vought and his defenders.
— Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017 -
Folks who are not on the right and increasingly the far right of the theological political spectrum do not find a home in SBC.
— Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023 -
Not to get too theological, but how similar in your view are the stories of Satan and Judas?
— Will Nevin, AL.com, 10 Oct. 2017 -
This lurid language is a cousin to the theological zealotry that inspires radicals to lash out against writers.
— Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 -
The milieus of the stories vary, but the mood threading them together is one of confession, sometimes in the theological sense.
— The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 -
The Protestant and Catholic theological tensions in Europe became wrapped up in the toxic mix of the national and ethnic tensions of the time, Root said.
— Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017 -
But his wild lifestyle remained at odds with his faith, and a conflicted Richard quit the business in 1957 to enroll in a theological school and get married.
— Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020 -
At the same time, the shift maintains the principle that the U.S. and other nations are not just fighting any kind of extremism devoid of a theological tie.
— Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2017 -
This is a parish with a very wide range of theological views and political views, but everybody gets along here, which is a rare thing in today’s world.
— Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2019 -
In all his years of theological and rabbinical study, Rabbi Grollman had learned what prayers to say for the dead but little if anything about how a person dies.
— Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021 -
If deferring to your husband at home and speaking in tongues in prayer isn't your brand of theological vodka, then don’t join the People of Praise, or any Pentecostal church in the world.
— Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021 -
The Advent was not asked to do anything to endorse or sponsor a theological viewpoint.
— al, 11 Dec. 2021 -
For her, this is a theological commitment, a reflection of her belief in the Imago Dei: the value of each of us, inclusive of our faults.
— Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020 -
What would both faith leaders like to see come of these theological dialogues?
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020 -
As a theological problem, this one has nearly broken the Church.
— Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021 -
The film is filled with theological arguments that, while accepted by many Catholics, are fair grounds for debate.
— Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022 -
But the book’s chief interest now stems from its own theological muddle.
— Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023 -
Yet even in his own time, Newton had good reason to keep most of his theological writings unpublished.
— David Davis, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017 -
This becomes very interesting when stories are at all theological.
— James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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