to theologize
- verb
- /θiˈɑːlədʒaɪz/
- US
- Many theologians gather regularly to theologize about the meaning of ancient texts.
Examples
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If science can thus help us theologize more faithfully and with new insight, it surely deserves our growing attention.
Academic text (1991) -
Collins has also theologized fear by relating historical activities of the deity to the petition at hand.
Academic text (1997) -
First, the point at issue is not just that every individual has a duty to theologize, but that this activity is best done in community by persons living together in faith.
Academic text (1990) -
This attempt to theologize within the categories of a particular language of faith emerges from its encounters with another external tradition.
Academic text (1999) -
Responding to his own multiple and changing contexts, Benedict too theologizes contextually and parenetically.
Academic text (2010) -
Theologizing from the heart enables us to hear the existential reverberations of this cry, and identifying with it has the potential to make theology prayerful.
Academic text (2009) -
We all know it's so much easier to sit around theologizing and think we're doing God's will, whereas Jesus was much more practical, calling us to put into practice what we hear and warning of disaster if we didn't (Luke 6:46-49).
Blog text (23) -
Job's companions theologize, i.e., talk/use words about God, while Job laments/prays, i.e., talks/use words to God.
Blog text (30) -
Perhaps we are in a good position, if we are capable of recognizing it, to theologize creatively once again (I do not mean this to imply a specific theological position or dogma).
Academic text (1992) -
Thus, as we theologize about creatio ex nihilo, we should separate the issue of past temporal finitude from the distinct issue of the boundedness of the past.
Academic text (1991)
How Theological
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Etymology
Theologize comes from the part theo- meaning 'god' and the same root you see in biology or psychology that means 'study', so to theologize is to talk about or think about something in terms of God or religion.