How to Use theology in a Sentence

theology

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  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Becomes one of the co-founders of Catholic theology journal Communio.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The novel’s deeper themes reach beyond politics to the problem of evil that threads through every theology and moral code.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • What kind of advice has Mel Gibson given you in terms of theology and self-fulfillment?
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Harris’ bestselling books on chastity have, for some years, been widely blamed for mainstreaming junk theology in the first place.
    — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Candles have been used as tools in spiritual ceremonies since the Stone Age, and are utilized by countless theologies to this day.
    — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Slade knows just how deep modern rapture theology can go.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • While the project started in a Catholic classroom, Quinata says there is no one theology being promoted.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Their friendship bloomed, as did Lewis’s interest in myths that spilled over into theology.
    — Emma Fraser, Town & Country, 4 Sep. 2022
  • So if a church wants to affiliate it’s expected to agree with that, and the statement would have the S.B.C.’s beliefs on theology and God, as well as things like the senior pastor, which is a role reserved for men.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 26 May 2022
  • One of the lawmakers, Rep. Justin Jones, who is pursuing his masters in theology, spoke about gun reform the next morning with a group of religious leaders.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The third writer in the series, Blaire Ostler, also builds a case for multiple divinities on Latter-day Saint theology that all humans are gods in embryo.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • Hiller taps into his own upbringing in Texas and jokes that his theology/theater double major has finally come in handy.
    — Ok McCausland, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • The United Methodist Church is part of the tradition of mainline Protestantism that now tends to be broadly progressive in its theology and traditional in its worship style.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023

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