How to Use theology in a Sentence

theology

noun
  • The bishop was opposed to the group's theology.
  • He has an interest in theology and pastoral work.
  • The air had gone out of the theology, but the moral cushions could still be plumped up.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • If Jerry Lee Lewis had the theology right, the ol' boy is roasting in hell right now.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Not the mass consumerism, or the festivities, or the lights, or the presents, but theology.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 2 Dec. 2021
  • That something turned out to be the theology of pop music.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • What does Latter-day Saint theology have to say about the issue?
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 June 2022
  • The 33-year-old theology professor called an Uber to take her home.
    Kells McPhillips, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • What drew you to make a film that takes us inside the world’s main center for Islamic theology for the first time?
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 May 2022
  • In Catholic theology, the Eucharist is the sacramental presence of Christ’s own body and blood.
    J.d. Flynn, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • Atum is the sun god and the center of Heliopolitan theology and its creation myths.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
  • At the head of the table, their parents held court on theology and politics.
    Chloé Cooper Jones, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • And that's where theology gets built: at the local level.
    Daniel Burke, CNN, 19 June 2020
  • No one came here, really, for the açai bowls or theology lessons.
    Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • And parts of the Shia theology center where Mr. Khomeini nurtured the seeds of the revolution, in the city of Qom, were shown to be attacked and set on fire.
    Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Plus, you’ll be treated to some stellar theology jokes and a scorching first kiss.
    Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • For many Shinto observers, showing up is the thing — and theology sometimes takes a back seat to practice.
    oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2023
  • How do these episodes square with Latter-day Saint theology?
    and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • And, of course, a noncontroversial theology of the Eucharist that all can sign off on.
    WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • Some of the pope’s critics have tried to dismiss his teachings on climate change as radical and out of the mainstream of Catholic theology.
    Jim Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Is the Sistine Chapel ceiling about art or Catholic theology?
    Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • One brave man has even confessed to having been a monster to his wife while under the influence of that theology.
    Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • And what happened when that was sort of pumped up with theology and people's devotion.
    Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • While the beliefs and theologies of various religions differ, all seem to share a sense of wonder about the solar eclipse.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But the same critical spirit could be applied to their own corpus of theology and law.
    The Economist, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Over the past few months the pope’s critics within the church have worried that the Vatican would chip away or discard Catholicism’s moral theology.
    Tim Busch and Mary Rice Hasson, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Is this even possible in a theology that declares the highest rung of heaven is peopled by couples and that even God has a wife?
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • There was criticism of Mormon theology, the coaching staff and the black players.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • And that itself is ominous and should make all of us cast aside any thread of ideology or theology or whatever, just look at that straight in the face.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The intrigue: Some experts think churches need to change their structures or even theology to retain more young women, or else face extinction.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024

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