theologize
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English
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin theologizāre, with the transitive sense possibly being formed by theology + -ize.[1]
Verb
theologize (third-person singular simple present theologizes, present participle theologizing, simple past and past participle theologized)
- (intransitive) To discuss or speculate about theological subjects.
- 1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
- Take A Bishop Like Me is Moore's response to his critics in the form of an apologia for his stance on the ordination of both women and homosexuals. The book portrays with candor and a minimum of theologizing the struggles of the leader of an established and venerable institution […] to deal with issues that his constituents would rather not discuss.
- (transitive) To treat something from a theological viewpoint.
- 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:
- School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized.
Translations
discuss or speculate about theological subjects
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treat something from a theological viewpoint
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References
- ^ “theologize”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
