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This theology is also described as "kenotic Christianity", kenosis is the Greek word for "emptying out", and it is a kind of theology and way of being church that seems needed in our world today, and in our particular Unitarian Universalist and even UU Christian world.

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  1. noun The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions.
  2. noun A system or school of opinions concerning God and religious questions: Protestant theology; Jewish theology.
  3. noun A course of specialized religious study usually at a college or seminary.

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  • The whole of his theology was an attempt to express consistently two convictions, rarely found of the same intensity in the same brain, of the divineness of the universe and the individuality of man. —  Robert Browning
  • But the theology was also specifically Methodist with great stress on experience. —  The Life of Sir William Hartley, ebook, etext
  • And your theology is as flawed as your ability to make a cogent argument. —  The American Spectator
  • Wake me up your theology is a little flawed to say the least. —  Infowars
  • Jews, their theology is anathema and their name is an oxymoron. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
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aseity · trinity · aretology · eschatology · soteriology · monergism · pneumatology · christology · theology proper · socinianism · numinous

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  1. Middle English theologie, from Old French, from Latin theologia, from Greek theologiā : theo-, theo- + -logiā, -logy.

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  1. from Middle English theologie, from Old French theologie, French théologie = Provencal teologia = Spanish teología = Portuguese theologia = Italian teologia = D. G. theologie = Swedish Danish teologi, from Late Latin theologia, from Greek θεολογία, a speaking concerning God, from θεολόγος, speaking of God (see theologue), from θεός, god, + λέγειν, speak.
 

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