Outline of theology

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to 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.

## Contents

* 1 Apologetics
* 2 Conceptions of God
* 2.1 Divine presence
* 2.2 God
* 2.3 Names of God
* 2.4 Singular God
* 2.5 Binitarianism
* 2.6 Trinitarianism
* 2.7 Other views
* 3 Eschatology
* 4 Existence of God
* 4.1 Arguments for
* 4.1.1 Arguments from
* 4.1.2 Other arguments
* 4.2 Arguments against
* 4.2.1 Arguments from
* 4.2.2 Other arguments
* 5 Opposition to religion
* 6 Theism
* 7 Theologies
* 8 Seminaries and theological colleges
* 9 Resources
* 10 Practitioners
* 11 See also

## Apologetics

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

* Bahá'í: Bahá'í apologetics

## Conceptions of God

Part of a series on

Theism

Types of faith

* Agnosticism
* Apatheism
* Atheism
* Deism
* Henotheism
* Ietsism
* Ignosticism
* Monotheism
* Monism
* Dualism
* Monolatry
* Kathenotheism
* Omnism
* Pandeism
* Panentheism
* Pantheism
* Polytheism
* Transtheism

Specific conceptions

* 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
* Zoroastrianism

Chinese

* Tian
* Shangdi
* Hongjun Laozu

Attributes

* Eternalness
* Existence
* Gender
* Names ("God")
* Omnibenevolence
* Omnipotence
* Omnipresence
* Omniscience

* 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

* v
* t
* e

### Divine presence

Divine presence

### God

*     * As the: Devil
* Sustainer

### Names of God

### Singular God

* Absolute
* Brahman
* Emanationism
* God
* Logos
* Supreme Being
* 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

Part of a series on

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
*     * Rapture
* Seven Seals

*     * Second Coming
* Islamic eschatology

Hindu

* Kalki
* Kali Yuga
* Shiva

Islamic

— Figures —

* Beast of the Earth
* Dhul-Qarnayn
* Dhul-Suwayqatayn
* Isa
* Messiah
* Second Coming
* Israfil
* Mahdi
* Dajjal
* Muhammad
* Al-Qa'im
* Sufyani
* Yajuj and Majuj

— Events —

* Death
* Resurrection
* Last Judgement

Jewish

* Messianism
*     * Book of Daniel
* Kabbalah

Taoist

* Li Hong

Zoroastrian

* Frashokereti
* Saoshyant

Inter-religious

*     * End times
* Apocalypticism

* 2012 phenomenon
*     * Millenarianism
* Last Judgment

* Resurrection of the dead
*     * Gog and Magog
* Messianic Age

* v
* t
* e

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

## Existence of God

Part of a series on

Theism

Types of faith

* Agnosticism
* Apatheism
* Atheism
* Deism
* Henotheism
* Ietsism
* Ignosticism
* Monotheism
* Monism
* Dualism
* Monolatry
* Kathenotheism
* Omnism
* Pandeism
* Panentheism
* Pantheism
* Polytheism
* Transtheism

Specific conceptions

* 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
* Zoroastrianism

Chinese

* Tian
* Shangdi
* Hongjun Laozu

Attributes

* Eternalness
* Existence
* Gender
* Names ("God")
* Omnibenevolence
* Omnipotence
* Omnipresence
* Omniscience

* 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

* v
* t
* e

### 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
* 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.

## Theologies

*     * Jewish: Abrahamic prophecy
* Angels in Judaism
* Jewish mysticism

## Seminaries and theological colleges

## Resources

* Theological libraries and librarianship
* List of theology journals

## Practitioners

## See also

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