Christian theology

Christian theology

The systematic study of the nature of God and religion.

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transubstantiation

Religion; Christian theology

The medieval doctrine according to which the bread and the wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, while retaining their outward appearance.

postliberalism

Religion; Christian theology

A theological movement, especially associated with Duke University and Yale Divinity School in the 1980s, which criticized the liberal reliance upon human experience, and reclaimed the notion of ...

exemplarism

Religion; Christian theology

A particular approach to the atonement, which stresses the moral or religious example set to believers by Jesus Christ.

schism

Religion; Christian theology

A deliberate break with the unity of the church, condemned vigorously by influential writers of the early church, such as Cyprian and Augustine.

A term used, especially during the nineteenth century, to refer to the real historical person of Jesus of Nazareth, as opposed to the Christian interpretation of that person, especially as presented ...

Anabaptism

Religion; Christian theology

A term derived from the Greek word for "re-baptizer," and used to refer to the radical wing of the sixteenth-century Reformation, based on thinkers such as Menno Simons or Balthasar Hubmaier. See p. ...