THEOLOGY in a Sentence

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For THEOLOGY, below is one of 17 sentences:
Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.

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 Meanings and Examples of THEOLOGY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
theology
 n.  science of God or of religion
Classic Sentence:
1  And so for history, the insoluble mystery presented by the incompatibility of free will and inevitability does not exist as it does for theology, ethics, and philosophy.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
2  But when truth conquered, theology established itself just as firmly on the new foundation.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
3  Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
4  My dear Aramis, you speak like theology personified.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
5  Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
6  The words that are left to us are not without interest, and, cleared of evident dross, they conceal much of real poetry and meaning beneath conventional theology and unmeaning rhapsody.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
7  The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother's complexion was pink, and the daughter's was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
8  He made an effort to recall the Protestant theology on some thorny points and in the end addressed Mr. Cunningham.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
9  "Oh, ours is a theological quarrel," replied Aramis, making a sign to d'Artagnan to keep secret the cause of their duel.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
10  At last it became Aramis's turn, who performed it with a good grace and who succeeded--as he said, by selling some theological books--in procuring a few pistoles.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
11  Beware of a profane taste in your theological style.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
12  His brother Sergey Ivanovitch advised him to read the theological works of Homiakov.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 9
13  Granted; but if you please, let us not theologize, Aramis.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
Example Sentence:
1  The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a basic tenet of Christian theology.
2  In the Middle Ages, philosophy and theology were inextricable.
3  Sure of his priestly vocation, Terrence planned to pursue his theological training at the local Roman Catholic seminary.
4  He is studying in the theological college.