Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

He received further theological training in the Benedictine monastery and minster of Nhutscelle ( Nursling ), not far from Winchester, which under the direction of abbot Winbert had grown into an industrious centre of learning in the tradition of Aldhelm.

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

The size of such a small church was however inadequate for a booming town with trading revenues to rival London and a theological centre with no fewer than four monasteries, so work would begin at the start of the 14th century on a much grander building, more fitting for a prosperous town.

The university became a centre of Roman Catholic theological learning, but also had faculties for the study of law, medicine, and philosophy.

The Toronto School of Theology ( TST ) is an ecumenical centre for graduate theological education and the largest of its kind in Canada.

Sozzini now fixed himself at Basel, gave himself to close study of the Bible, began translating the Psalms into Italian verse, and, in spite of increasing deafness, became a centre of theological debates.

The Dutch and English congregations was the centre of a series of theological arguments and the church bell was stolen and buried, only to be found 74 years later upon the construction of some cottages near the old church.

Ali Salman originally studied in Qom, a major centre of Iranian theological thinking in Iran.

Ordained in 1943, he served two curacies, in Llannon and Carmarthen-before going in 1948 to teach theology at Codrington College in Barbados, the main centre of Anglican theological training in the Caribbean.

This monumental work, the Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, contains invaluable information regarding its inner life, organization, famous professors and students, relations with popes and kings, controversies, etc., during the period when this university was the chief centre of theological learning.

It has been called " perhaps the most important single theological document in the neo-Pagan movement ".

The term " fundamentalism " was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century, and that had its roots in the Fundamentalist – Modernist Controversy of that time.

The main difference between the Orthodox Jews of Britain and the newly founded Masorti movement was and still is a theological one: it concerns the authority of the Torah.

This moment is said to have marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, a theological movement intended to reform the Church.

There is substantial theological diversity within the movement.

As with any religious movement, a theological spectrum exists within Adventism comparable to the fundamentalist-moderate-liberal spectrum in the wider Christian church and in other religions.

Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being.

Joseph Ratzinger, later elected pope, identified three overall motifs in Dei Verbum: ( 1 ) the new view of the phenomenon of tradition ; ( 2 ) the theological problem of the application of critical historical methods to the interpretation of Scripture ; and ( 3 ) the biblical movement that had been growing from the turn of the twentieth century.

Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.

She failed, however, to grasp the theological issues that drove their movement.

This movement significantly encouraged deterministic views in western philosophy, as well as the related theological views of Classical Pantheism.

Jansenism was a Christian theological movement, primarily in France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination.

* Oxford Movement, 19th century Anglo-Catholic theological movement

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

These musicians usually reject the legitimacy of Christian antisemitism as well as the German Christians movement, which celebrated and promoted Nazi ideology in the context of an unorthodox Christian theological framework.

Arminianism is the theological stance of Jacob Arminius and the movement which stemmed from him.

His innovations in Jewish worship include chanting prayers in English while retaining the traditional Hebrew cantillation, engaging worshippers in theological dialogue, leading meditation during services and the introduction of spontaneous movement and dance.

The general understanding of the ecumenical movement is that it came from the Roman Catholic Church's attempts to reconcile with Christians who had become separated over theological issues.

The international Potter's House Church ( CFM ) was birthed out of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, a church movement based in Los Angeles where Chuck Smith, the pastor of Calvary Chapel, received his early theological training.

He believed that the modern movement to re-establish a Jewish state in the land of Israel had profound theological significance and that the Zionists were agents in a heavenly plan to bring about the messianic era.

At the second century of the Hijra, a new movement arose in the theological school of Basra, Iraq.

At the second century of the Hijra, a new movement arose in the theological school of Basra, Iraq.

In coining the word Altruism, as stated above, Comte was probably opposing this Thomistic doctrine, which is present in some theological schools within Catholicism.

The connection many of them had with the church was of the slenderest kind, consisting mainly in adopting the title of abbé, after a remarkably moderate course of theological study, practising celibacy and wearing a distinctive dress — a short dark-violet coat with narrow collar.

Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance ( 1610 ), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands.

Classical Arminianism ( sometimes titled Reformed Arminianism or Reformation Arminianism ) is the theological system that was presented by Jacobus Arminius and maintained by some of the Remonstrants ; its influence serves as the foundation for all Arminian systems.

Ambrose was known to be Catholic in belief, but also acceptable to Arians due to the charity shown in theological matters in this regard.

In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

Albertus ' activity, however, was more philosophical than theological ( see Scholasticism ).

The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul ( named in Colossians ) and this traditional view of Lukan authorship is “ widely held as the view which most satisfactorily explains all the data .” The list of scholars maintaining authorship by Luke the physician is lengthy, and represents scholars from a wide range of theological opinion.

Its institutions included a post-graduate theological college ( opened in connection with the Church of England in 1892, until 1907, when it was removed to Llandaff ).

As a teenager he was his father ’ s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.

Spanish Adoptionism was a theological position which was articulated in Umayyad and Christian-held regions of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th and 9th centuries.

He continued to lead the conflict against the Arians for the rest of his life and was engaged in theological and political struggles against the Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II and powerful and influential Arian churchmen, led by Eusebius of Nicomedia and others.

At the time he was a student, the influence of Origen was still felt in the traditions of the theological school of Alexandria.

Specifically his theological learning was in the famed Catechetical School of Alexandria.

It is now accepted by most scholars that the Arian Party was not a monolithic group, holding drastically different theological views that spanned the early Christian theological spectrum.

However, others point to the Council of Nicaea as proof in and of itself that Arianism was a real theological ideology.

The Apostles ' Creed was based on Christian theological understanding of the Canonical gospels, the letters of the New Testament and to a lesser extent the Old Testament.

After killing a religious leader during a theological argument, Nehor was tried and executed for his crimes.