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Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin theologista.[1]
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theologist (plural theologists)
- (uncommon) One who is skilled in, professes or practices that which relates or pertains to God.
- Synonyms: (uncommon) theologer, theologian, (uncommon) theologician, (uncommon) theologue
- Hyponym: (rare) theologaster
- 1763 August 6, Elizabeth Carter, personal correspondence, in Montagu Pennington, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter , Volume I, F. C. and J. Rivington (1808), page 319,
- She told me with great joy and simplicity, that an English lady had told her, that our religion was very much alike. I think it is very possible that she fancied us to be Heathens or Turks, before this profound theologist set her right.
- 1884, William Chatterton Coupland, Translator's Preface to Eduard von Hartmann, Philosophy of the Unconscious: Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science, Volume I, MacMillan and Co., page viii,
- What would you have, says the scientist, but an ever-widening view of Nature's operations?—is it not enough, cries the theologist, to be sure that there is a God, although "His ways are past finding out?"
- 2006, Syafiq Hasyim, Understanding Women in Islam: An Indonesian Perspective, Equinox Publishing, →ISBN, page 32,
- Besides being known as a theologist, he was noted for being a person of great farid (beauty). ¶ Al-Razi was an intellectual leader (imam) in the fields of Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic theology, rational sciences, and linguistics.
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