All 3 Uses of
theology
in
Don Quixote
- He is eighteen years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found him so wrapped up in that of poetry (if that can be called a science) that there is no getting him to take kindly to the law, which I wished him to study, or to theology, the queen of them all.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- He must know mathematics, for at every turn some occasion for them will present itself to him; and, putting it aside that he must be adorned with all the virtues, cardinal and theological, to come down to minor particulars, he must, I say, be able to swim as well as Nicholas or Nicolao the Fish could, as the story goes; he must know how to shoe a horse, and repair his saddle and bridle; and, to return to higher matters, he must be faithful to God and to his lady; he must be pure in…†
Chpt 2.17-18
- "He preaches well who lives well," said Sancho, "and I know no more theology than that."†
Chpt 2.19-20 *
Definition:
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(theology) the study of religion; or a particular system or school of religious beliefs