(n.) A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Thinker
Definition:
(n.) One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(2) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
(3) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(4) Bin Laden, who was 54 when he died, also had a copy of The America I Have Seen, a vitriolic memoir of a short trip to the US by the Egyptian thinker and activist Syed Qutb , considered the godfather of modern jihadi thinking and hanged in 1966.
(5) Anyone who attended one of the many conferences dedicated to his work observed how conscientiously he listened to every paper (whether by a famous thinker or a graduate student), took careful notes, and asked polite but searching questions.
(6) Results indicated abstract thinkers had a better decision-making process than concrete thinkers and made more health promoting decisions.
(7) Having an independent thinker at Westminster is what the people of Brighton Pavilion would want.
(8) Ed Miliband's vision of bringing down the cost of living is insufficiently bold for the country, according to one organiser of a letter from thinkers on the left warning Labour against playing it safe in the party's election manifesto.
(9) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(10) In June a network of young economics students, thinkers and writers set up Rethinking Economics , a campaign group to challenge what they say is the predominant narrative in the subject.
(11) Theilhaber was an original thinker and a prolific writer.
(12) Morsi refused to give the power of attorney to the lawyer secured for him by colleagues outside prison – Selim al-Awa, a prominent Islamist thinker who also ran for president last year.
(13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
(14) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
(15) We have to pass and in my view we have to pass it at a higher level of standard than any university in the land, otherwise there is no point in having us.” In many ways, the Crick is the natural home for big thinkers.
(16) As Seldon put it in his 2007 book Blair Unbound: “Balls had no respect for Blair as an economist or a thinker, and assumed that he merely took his script from Heywood.” A politician who has worked closely with Heywood says: “To be very good at being a private secretary or cabinet secretary, you have to be very close to the boundary between civil service work and politics, but not step over it.
(17) The Labour-aligned historian and thinker RH Tawney wrote those words, in 1932.
(18) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
(19) By now it should be clear that Nichols is a strategic thinker as much as an aspiring auteur; a necessary personality trait, perhaps, for someone coming into film-making from outside the NY-LA hothouse.
(20) Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, describes Stitzer as "a very deep thinker about values, and about doing the right thing, both as an individual in his personal life and in the business he leads.