(a.) Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.
(n.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).
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Theologian
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(n.) A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.
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(1) The Jewish writer and theologian Arthur Cohen wrote of the Shoah in terms of what he called the Tremendum, something so completely impossible to comprehend, yet so essential that we (all) try.
(2) Not only doctors and prison officials took part in this meeting but also general practitioners, theologians, philosophers, ex-prisoners, judges, lawyers, Members of Parliament and Senators.
(3) As the theologian Broderick Greer tweeted , “only a white person could get this much attention for being black” – and only a white woman could get this much attention for being a black woman during a week when the national conversation finally turned to police violence directed at black women after video surfaced of a 14-year-old black girl terrorized by police in McKinney, Texas.
(4) But she says: "In the UK our scholars and theologians have not been prepared to make any rulings.
(5) Scholarly inquiry, the search for causation, the most meticulous reconstruction, the grave questions of theologians and of thinkers like Arendt herself, the wrenching accounts of survivors, the discovered testimony of victims like Anne Frank – it all goes only so far.
(6) So in a way even my science books are forced to take a stance, not against posh theologians who accept evolution but surely the absolute majority of religious people in the world who literally believe that every species was separately created and even, in the case of the Abrahamic religions, believe that Adam and Eve were created 6,000 years ago.
(7) After the remote, intellectual German theologian came the church's first Jesuit leader, its first Latin American pontiff – and the first pope to take the name of Francis.
(8) "Whenever the Democratic party nominates a Catholic it is a godsend, because otherwise the abortion issue is secondary," said Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame University.
(9) "Sophisticated" theologians (what is there in "theology" to be sophisticated about?)
(10) He declared that the bishops of England and Wales had a very good relationship with their moral theologians, making it clear that there would be no purges in his territory.
(11) Spiritual and emotional development, responsibility and guilt, law and freedom, psychic structure and sanctity, sexuality, and symbolic representation are among the areas which demand intellectual exploration in depth, jointly, by theologians and social scientists.
(12) He believes that medical practitioners should play the primary role in the ethical training of physicians, but that teachers should be drawn as well from the ranks of moral philosophers, lawyers, theologians, social scientists, and others.
(13) As for me – a theologian might say God stayed his hand.
(14) The President's Commission on Ethics in Medicine and Human Research has utilized many of the principles developed by Catholic theologians when considering the matter of pain relief for dying persons.
(15) These are big claims, which take Brooks well beyond his usual opinion columns in the New York Times, and many philosophers and theologians will fume that he gets far more attention for arriving late at their party.
(16) On the whole, members are primarily mathematicians, geologists, and theologians and are identified not by name but by a given number.
(17) He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist preacher Jerry Falwell somehow embodied the teachings of the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote extensively, in books like Moral Man and Immoral Society, about the intersection of faith, politics and social action, and who was a major influence on Martin Luther King.
(18) Participation in geronotology by anthropologists, theologians, and jurists is pleaded.
(19) Other theologians will accept that the Old Testament is pretty horrible but will point with pride, and nods of approval from all sides, to the New Testament as a truly righteous moral guide.
(20) We have priests and theologians being silenced by the Vatican – they can act against people whose views they feel are liberal, but they will not act against someone who not only endangered children but let them be abused.