Outline of theology

The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, theology.

Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities, seminaries and schools of divinity.

Apologetics

Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing.

• • General: List of apologetic works
  • Polemic
  • Positive Deconstruction
  • More...
• Bahá'í: Bahá'í apologetics
• • Christian: Christian apologetics
  • Christian apologists
  • List of Christian apologetic works
  • Ecumenical Apologetics
  • Presuppositional apologetics
  • Epistle to Diognetus
  • Trilemma
  • Urmonotheismus
  • More...
• Muslim: Muslim apologists

Conceptions of God

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Theism
Types of faith Agnosticism Apatheism Atheism Classical theism Deism Henotheism Ietsism Ignosticism Monotheism Monism Dualism Monolatry Kathenotheism Omnism Pandeism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Transtheism
Specific conceptions Brahman Creator Demiurge Deus Father Form of the Good God Great Architect Monad Mother Summum bonum Supreme Being Sustainer The Lord Trinity Tawhid Ditheism Monism Personal Unitarianism
In particular religions Abrahamic Judaism Christianity Islam Baháʼí Faith Mormonism Mandaeism Samaritanism Indo-Iranian Hinduism Buddhism Jainism Sikhism Yungdrung Bon Zoroastrianism Chinese Tian Shangdi Hongjun Laozu
Attributes Eternalness Existence Gender Names ("God") Omnibenevolence Omnipotence Omnipresence Omniscience Aseity Transcendence
Experiences Practices Belief Esotericism Faith Fideism Gnosis Hermeticism Metaphysics Mysticism Prayer Revelation Worship
Related topics Euthyphro dilemma God complex God gene Theology Ontology Problem of evil (theodicy) Religion philosophy texts Portrayals of God in popular media  Religion portal
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Divinity
Concepts
Divine presence Divine revelation Divine language Divine will Divine judgment Human transcendence Divine providence
Philosophical aspects
Conceptions of God
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Divine presence

Divine presence

God

• • As the: Devil
  • Sustainer
• • In: Abrahamic religions
  • Bahá'í Faith
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Jainism
  • Judaism
  • Sikhism
  • Zoroastrianism
  • More...

Names of God

• • In: Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Judaism
  • More...

Singular God

• Absolute (philosophy)
• Brahman
• Emanationism
• God
• Logos
• More...

Binitarianism

• Binitarianism

Trinitarianism

• Trinity
• Trinitarian formula
• Athanasian Creed
• Comma Johanneum
• Consubstantiality
• Homoousian
• Hypostasis
• Perichoresis
• Shield of the Trinity
• Trinitarianism in the Church Fathers
• Trinitarian Universalism
• More...

Other views

• Aristotelian view of God
• Demiurge
• Divine simplicity
• Egotheism
• Godhead (Christianity)
• Godhead (Latter Day Saints)
• Great Architect of the Universe
• Great Spirit
• Apophatic theology
• Olelbis
• Open theism
• Personal god
• Phenomenological definition of God
• Philo's view of God
• Sarav viāpak
• Taryenyawagon
• Tian
• Unmoved mover
• More...

Eschatology

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Eschatology
Buddhist Maitreya Three Ages
Christian — Biblical texts — Book of Revelation Book of Daniel Olivet Discourse Sheep and Goats — Major figures — Jesus Two witnesses Four Horsemen Antichrist — Different views — Preterism Idealism Historicism Futurism — Millennialism — Premillennialism Amillennialism Postmillennialism — Other events — Events of Revelation (Apocalypse) Rapture Armageddon Seven Seals Second Coming
Hindu Kalki Kali Yuga Shiva
Islamic — Figures — Beast of the Earth Dhul-Qarnayn Dhul-Suwayqatayn Isa Israfil Mahdi Dajjal Muhammad Al-Qa'im Sufyani Yajuj and Majuj — Events — Swallowing in Bayda Coming of the Mahdi Return of Isa Resurrection
Jewish — Biblical texts — Book of Isaiah Book of Ezekiel Book of Zechariah Book of Daniel — Other sources — Rabbinic literature (Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash) Medieval Jewish scholars Kabbalah — Figures — Elijah the Prophet, Messiah (Mashiach Ben David, Mashiach Ben Yosef), Gog and Magog, Armilus — Events and terms — Atchalta De'Geulah, Kibbutz Galuyot, Third Temple, War of Gog and Magog, Resurrection of the dead, Olam Haba
Norse — Figures and items — Bound monster Gjallarhorn Líf and Lífþrasir Naglfar — Events — Fimbulwinter Ragnarök Vígríðr
Taoist Li Hong Divine Incantations Scripture
Zoroastrian Frashokereti Saoshyant
Inter-religious 2012 phenomenon Afterlife Apocalypticism Fate of the unlearned Gog and Magog Last Judgment Messianism (Messiah / Age) Millenarianism Universal resurrection
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Eschatology, literally the "study of the last", is the part of theology and philosophy concerned with the end of the world.

• Afterlife
• Apocalypticism
• Buddhist
• Christian
• Concepts of Heaven
• Doomsday films
• Ghost Dance Movement
• Ghosts
• Hindu
• Islamic
• Jewish
• Personifications of death
• Singularitarianism
• Taoist
• Zoroastrian
• More

Existence of God

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Theism
Types of faith Agnosticism Apatheism Atheism Classical theism Deism Henotheism Ietsism Ignosticism Monotheism Monism Dualism Monolatry Kathenotheism Omnism Pandeism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Transtheism
Specific conceptions Brahman Creator Demiurge Deus Father Form of the Good God Great Architect Monad Mother Summum bonum Supreme Being Sustainer The Lord Trinity Tawhid Ditheism Monism Personal Unitarianism
In particular religions Abrahamic Judaism Christianity Islam Baháʼí Faith Mormonism Mandaeism Samaritanism Indo-Iranian Hinduism Buddhism Jainism Sikhism Yungdrung Bon Zoroastrianism Chinese Tian Shangdi Hongjun Laozu
Attributes Eternalness Existence Gender Names ("God") Omnibenevolence Omnipotence Omnipresence Omniscience Aseity Transcendence
Experiences Practices Belief Esotericism Faith Fideism Gnosis Hermeticism Metaphysics Mysticism Prayer Revelation Worship
Related topics Euthyphro dilemma God complex God gene Theology Ontology Problem of evil (theodicy) Religion philosophy texts Portrayals of God in popular media  Religion portal
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Arguments for

Arguments from

• A proper basis
• Beauty
• Consciousness
• Degree
• Desire
• Love
• Miracles
• Morality
• Reason
• Religious experience

Other arguments

• Christological
• Cosmological
• Ontological
• Pascal's wager
• Teleological
• Trademark
• Transcendental
• Witness
• More...

Arguments against

Arguments from

• Free will
• Inconsistent revelations
• Nonbelief
• Poor design

Other arguments

• God of the gaps
• Incompatible-properties argument
• Omnipotence paradox
• Problem of evil
• Problem of Hell
• Theological noncognitivism
• Transcendental argument for the existence of God
• More...

Opposition to religion

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Atheism
Concepts Implicit and explicit atheism Negative and positive atheism
History History of atheism Atheism during the Age of Enlightenment New Atheism
Society Atheist feminism Criticism of religion Demographics of atheism Discrimination against atheists Secular ethics Secularism Separation of church and state State atheism
Arguments Arguments for atheism Atheist's wager Creator of God Evil God challenge Fate of the unlearned Free will God of the gaps Hitchens's razor Incompatible properties Inconsistent revelation Nonbelief Occam's razor Omnipotence paradox Parody religion Poor design Problem of evil Problem of Hell Russell's teapot Theological noncognitivism
People Lists of atheists Julian Baggini Mikhail Bakunin Mario Bunge Albert Camus Richard Dawkins Daniel Dennett Denis Diderot Ludwig Feuerbach A. C. Grayling Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Baron d'Holbach Lawrence Krauss Michael Lou Martin Karl Marx Jean Meslier Friedrich Nietzsche Michel Onfray Bertrand Russell Peter Singer Victor J. Stenger
Books Atheism: The Case Against God Breaking the Spell De rerum natura The End of Faith The God Delusion God Is Not Great The System of Nature
Related stances Irreligion Agnosticism Freethought Secular humanism Atheism and religion Christian Hindu Buddhist Jewish Muslim Theism Criticism of atheism
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Antireligion

• Anti-Buddhism
• Catholicism
• Christianity
• Gnosticism
• Hinduism
• Islam (Criticism
• Persecution)
• Judaism
• Protestantism
• Anti-cult movement
• Zoroastrianism
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Disengagement from religion

Secularism

Separation of church and state

Theism

Theism in the broadest sense is the belief in the existence of a god or gods. In the more specific sense used here theism refers to a particular doctrine concerning the nature of a God and its relationship to the universe.

• • List of belief systems
  • Deity (Divinity
  • Numen
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender of)
  • Deism
  • Dystheism
  • Henotheism
  • Hermeticism
  • Kathenotheism
  • Nontheism
  • Monolatrism
  • Monotheism
  • Mysticism
  • Panentheism
  • Pandeism
  • Pantheism
  • Polydeism
  • Polytheism
  • Spiritualism
  • Theopanism
  • More...

Theologies

• • Christian: of the Bible
  • Terms
  • Christology
  • Cosmology
  • Ecclesiology
  • Ethics
  • Hamartiology
  • Law
  • Messianism
  • Movements
  • Nestorianism
  • New testament
  • Old testament
  • Philosophy
  • Practical
  • Sophiology
  • Soteriology
  • More...
• • Feminist: Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Judaism
  • Mormonism
  • Goddesses
  • More...
• • Hindu: Ayyavazhi theology
  • Hindu philosophical concepts
  • Krishnology
  • More...
• • Islamic: Aqidah
  • Mutazilites
  • Shi'a theology
  • More...
• • Jewish: Abrahamic prophecy
  • Angels in Judaism
  • Jewish mysticism
• • Other: Death of God
  • Exotheology
  • Holocaust
  • Pope Pius XII
  • Process
  • Queer
  • Zoroastrian
  • More...

Seminaries and theological colleges

• • Anglican
  • Buddhist
  • Eastern Orthodox
  • Evangelical
  • Islamic
  • Jewish
  • Lutheran
  • Madrassas
  • Methodist
  • Reformed Church
  • Roman Catholic
  • More...

Resources

• Theological libraries and librarianship
• List of theology journals

Practitioners

• Theologians

See also