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Theology Proper is the study of God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 in a Christian
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
 Trinitarian
Trinitarian

The word trinitarian is used in several senses:*Ideas or things pertaining to the Trinity.*A person or group adhering to the doctrine of Trinitarianism, which holds God to subsist in the form of the Holy Trinity....
 system, and includes the study of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit

In Christianity, the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is the spirit of God. The term Christ , is also used to refer to this presence. That is, the Spirit is considered to act in concert with and share an essential nature with God the Father and God the Son ....
 (Pneumatology
Pneumatology

Pneumatology is the study of spirituality and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.Pneuma is Greek language for "breath", which metaphorically describes a non-material being or influence....
) and the study of Jesus Christ (Christology
Christology

Christology is a field of study within Christian theology which is concerned with the nature of Jesus the Christ, particularly with how the divine and human are related in his person....
). The term Theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
 (lit. 'God-word') is popularly described as 'talk about God' or God-talk, but is usually used in the generic sense to describe religious studies. Theology Proper may thus be considered the sub-discipline of theology which deals specifically with the being
Being

In ontology being is anything that can be said to be, either Transcendence or Immanence.The nature of being varies by philosophy, given different interpretations in the frameworks of Parmenides, Leucippus, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre....
, attributes and works of God.






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Theology Proper is the study of God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 in a Christian
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
 Trinitarian
Trinitarian

The word trinitarian is used in several senses:*Ideas or things pertaining to the Trinity.*A person or group adhering to the doctrine of Trinitarianism, which holds God to subsist in the form of the Holy Trinity....
 system, and includes the study of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit

In Christianity, the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is the spirit of God. The term Christ , is also used to refer to this presence. That is, the Spirit is considered to act in concert with and share an essential nature with God the Father and God the Son ....
 (Pneumatology
Pneumatology

Pneumatology is the study of spirituality and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.Pneuma is Greek language for "breath", which metaphorically describes a non-material being or influence....
) and the study of Jesus Christ (Christology
Christology

Christology is a field of study within Christian theology which is concerned with the nature of Jesus the Christ, particularly with how the divine and human are related in his person....
). The term Theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
 (lit. 'God-word') is popularly described as 'talk about God' or God-talk, but is usually used in the generic sense to describe religious studies. Theology Proper may thus be considered the sub-discipline of theology which deals specifically with the being
Being

In ontology being is anything that can be said to be, either Transcendence or Immanence.The nature of being varies by philosophy, given different interpretations in the frameworks of Parmenides, Leucippus, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre....
, attributes and works of God. As the Christian conception of God is triune
Trinity

In Christianity doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in monotheism. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostasis , but one being....
, trinitarian theology is considered to be an undertaking of Theology Proper.

Topics Pertaining to Theology Proper

  • Apophatic Theology
  • Cataphatic Theology
    Cataphatic theology

    Cataphatic theology is the expressing of God or the divine by what is or expressing God through positive terminology. This is in contrast to defining God or the divine in what God is not which is referred to as negative or apophatic theology....
  • Christology
    Christology

    Christology is a field of study within Christian theology which is concerned with the nature of Jesus the Christ, particularly with how the divine and human are related in his person....
  • Divine Simplicity
    Divine simplicity

    In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts. The general idea of divine simplicity can be stated in this way: the being of God is identical to the attributes of God....
  • Eternality
    Eternity

    While in the popular mind, eternity often simply means existing for a limitless amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside of time....
  • Godhead (Christianity)
    Godhead (Christianity)

    In Christianity, the term Godhead refers to "godhood", and denotes the divine character of God. The term the Godhead may also be used as a title for God....
  • God the Father
    God the Father

    In many religions, the supreme deity is given the title and attributions of Father. In many forms of polytheism, the highest god has been conceived as a "father of gods and of men"....
  • Immutability
  • Impassibility
  • Kenosis
    Kenosis

    Kenosis is a Greek language word for emptiness, which is used as a theology term. The ancient Greek language word ????s?? k?nosis means an "emptying", from ?e??? ken?s "empty"....
  • Monotheism
    Monotheism

    In theology, monotheism is the belief that only one god exists. The concept of "monotheism" tends to be dominated by the concept of God in the Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the Neoplatonism concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite....
  • Omnipotence
    Omnipotence

    Omnipotence is unlimited power.Monotheism religions generally attribute omnipotence to only the deity of whichever faith is being addressed. In the religious philosophy of most Western monotheistic religions, omnipotence is often listed as one of a deity's characteristics among many, including omniscience, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence...
  • Omniscience
    Omniscience

    Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about a character including thoughts, feelings, life and the universe, etc....
  • Ontology
    Ontology

    Ontology in philosophy is the study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic category of being and their relations....
  • Pneumatology
    Pneumatology

    Pneumatology is the study of spirituality and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.Pneuma is Greek language for "breath", which metaphorically describes a non-material being or influence....
  • Prescience
  • The Transcendentals
    Transcendentals

    The transcendentals are the properties of being. Typically there are three generally agreed upon transcendentals, One, Good and True . Another, Thing and Beautiful have also been asserted by various authors to be transcendentals....
  • Trinitarian Theology
    Trinity

    In Christianity doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in monotheism. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostasis , but one being....
  • Theodicy
  • Theosis
    Theosis

    In Christianity theology, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches theology, theosis is the process of a believer in emulating the life example of Jesus Christ and of following the gospel of Christ in one's daily life; the process of seeking to become more holy....