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

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

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

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

• Antireligion
• • Anti-Buddhism
  • Catholicism
  • Christianity
  • Gnosticism
  • Hinduism
  • Islam (Criticism
  • Persecution)
  • Judaism
  • Protestantism
  • Anti-cult movement
  • Zoroastrianism
  • More...
• 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

• Religion portal

• Ascetical theology
• Biblical theology
• Constructive theology
• Doctor of Divinity
• Exegesis
• Formal and material principles of theology
• Heresy
• Hierology
• History of theology
• Liberation theology
• Moral theology
• Mystical theology
• Natural theology
• Neurotheology
• Odium theologicum
• Ontological and theological perfection
• Religious philosophy
• Propitiation
• Scholasticism
• Systematic theology
• Thealogy
• Theogony
• Theological aesthetics
• Theosony