Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

The vast majority of Christian nations and groups have not adopted this theology, nor have they followed it in practice.

Wesleyan Methodists have followed Arminian theology.

There is an ancient tradition of skepticism about theology, followed by a more modern rise in secularist and atheist criticism.

Ibn Rushd's education followed a traditional path, beginning with studies in Hadith, linguistics, jurisprudence and scholastic theology.

In addition to describing how he understands Jewish law as being like a human being with a body (= the body of Jewish law, the corpus juris ) and soul (= the Covenant between God and the Jewish People ), he has specific chapters on the interaction between Jewish law and morality, theology, and custom, followed by some comparisons to the right and left of his approach and some specific examples of his own rabbinic rulings that illustrate his theory.

The policy was Cromwell's, but Henry VIII had already in 1538 refused to adopt Lutheran theology, and the statute of Six Articles ( 1539 ), followed by the king's disgust with Anne of Cleves ( 1540 ), brought the agents of that policy to ruin.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

An examination for theology was added in 1675, followed by law in 1736.

When the young man expressed interest in a career in the church, his uncle, the Marquis Antoine de Fénelon ( a friend of Jean-Jacques Olier and Vincent de Paul ) arranged for him to study at the Collège du Plessis, whose theology students followed the same curriculum as the theology students at the Sorbonne.

" Recent plans to merge with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology were followed by an article in The New York Times claiming " such a merger would further Boston College's quest to become the nation's Catholic intellectual powerhouse " and that, once approved by the Vatican and Jesuit authorities in Rome, BC " would become the center for the study of Roman Catholic theology in the United States.

Despite the external similarity with temples, the structuring of the interior space of the church always followed the East Syrian architectural theology.

Teaching that Christianity had become hopelessly corrupt, he followed a unique theology based on Watchman Nee's.

Vedanayagam Devasahayam ( b. 1949 ) of the Church of South India followed Nirmal as head of Dalit theology at the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, and further developed Nirmal's ideas, writing a number of books.

Aristotle was the first to articulate an ethical understanding of common good, followed by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas who developed the concept into standard moral theology.

He followed with studies in Canon law and theology and became a priest.

This was followed by another essay in 1922, titled " Politische Theologie " ( political theology ); in it, Schmitt, who at the time was working as a professor at the University of Bonn, gave further substance to his authoritarian theories, analyzing the concept of " free will " influenced by Christian-Catholic thinkers.

During the era of relative religious tolerance that followed, writers such as the Jewish theologian Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ) or the Muslim polymath ( 1126 – 1198 ) Averroes penned works of theology, science, philosophy, and mathematics that would have lasting impacts on Hebrew and Muslim philosophy and prove essential to the flowering of the European Renaissance centuries later.

This theology is popular where the Hanafi school of law is followed, particularly the lands of the former Ottoman and Mughal empires, viz.

In 1751 he followed them and began his studies in theology in University of Wittenberg, moving in 1754 to the increasingly famous University of Göttingen to study history.

As a young man he followed family traditions by studying theology in Heidelberg, where his teachers included the young Kuno Fischer.

He gained his doctorate in theology in 1903, followed by his habilitation at the Vienna university, being one of the first scholars writing on business ethics in the context of Catholic social teaching.

In this work, Bell followed the principles of natural theology, asserting the existence of a uniquely human system of facial muscles in the service of a human species with a unique relationship to the Creator.

One view is that Zwingli was trained as an Erasmian humanist and Luther played a decisive role in changing his theology.

Another view is that Zwingli did not pay much attention to Luther's theology and in fact he considered it as part of the humanist reform movement.

A third view is that Zwingli was not a complete follower of Erasmus, but had diverged from him as early as 1516 and that he independently developed his theology.

Puritans adopted a Reformed theology and in that sense were Calvinists ( as many of their earlier opponents were, too ), but also took note of radical views critical of Zwingli in Zurich and Calvin in Geneva.

During this time, Bucer and Zwingli remained in close touch, discussing other aspects of theology and practice such as the use of religious images and the liturgy.

He was born at Bern, of a noble family, and was extremely proud of his lineage, particularly his descent from Thomas Wyttenbach, professor of theology in Basel at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century, who had taught Huldrych Zwingli and other distinguished pupils.

Sola fide was a doctrine averred by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli and others during the Protestant Reformation, and was a core belief especially in the theology of the Lutheran reformers Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon.

The University of Zurich was founded on April 29, 1833, when the existing colleges of theology ( founded by Huldrych Zwingli in 1525 ), law and medicine were merged with a new faculty of Philosophy.

Zwingli complained of no major differences with Grebel on cardinal points of theology, and minimized Grebel's differences as " unimportant outward things, such as these, whether infants or adults should be baptized and whether a Christian may be a magistrate.

Jud exemplified the heavy interiority of spiritualism that was so present in Zwingli ’ s theology, which was a hallmark of the majority of the Swiss movements.

Like Martin Bucer of Strasbourg, Blarer ‘ s theology was greatly influenced by both Zwingli and Luther.

After the Diet of Speyer had confirmed the edict of Worms, Philipp I felt the need to reconcile the diverging views of Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli in order to develop a unified Protestant theology.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

From 1893 he studied Protestant theology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Universität of Straßburg.

He completed his theology degree in 1899 and published his PhD thesis at the University of Tübingen in 1899.

In 1223 ( or 1221 ) he became a member of the Dominican Order, against the wishes of his family, and studied theology at Bologna and elsewhere.

He taught philosophy and theology at the University of Paris and enjoyed a great reputation as a subtle dialectician ; his lectures developing the philosophy of Aristotle attracted a large circle of hearers.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

When he became a Franciscan and thus created a formal Franciscan school of theology at Paris, it was soon clear that his students lacked some of the basic tools for the discipline.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Luther's complaints against the book carried past the point of scholarly critique and may reflect Luther's antisemitism, which is disputed, such as in the biography of Luther by Derek Wilson, which points out that Luther's anger at the Jews was not at their race but at their theology.

From that moment a strong friendship sprang up between the abbot and the bishop, who was professor of theology at Notre Dame of Paris, and the founder of the Abbey of St. Victor.

The Lower Houses were built in 1931 and were originally intended to house theology students at Emmanuel College, whose current building was opened the same year.

Bellarmine's systematic study of theology began at Padua in 1567 and 1568, where his teachers were adherents of Thomism.

It was the final stage of the reformers ' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass ; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God ; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.

Love used the money to travel to Ireland where she took two semesters at Trinity College studying theology, and briefly reunited with her father, who was living there at the time.

It comes in at least two forms: covenant theology and kingdom theology.

In addition, vicars general and episcopal vicars are to be doctors or at least licensed in canon law or theology ( c. 478. 1 ), and canonical advocates must either have the doctorate or be truly expert in canon law ( c. 1483 ).

Though his theology was at first somewhat indefinite in phraseology, he undoubtedly gave a thorough adhesion to the Nicene orthodoxy.

This has led four Protestant Christian denominations to develop a theology of pacifism, the avoidance of force and violence at all times.