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someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology

The Catholic theologian is working hard to expand on hard-won lines of communication with the world's other faiths.

He Described C.S. Lewis as a hot theologian after the Narnia books were made into a movie.
she wondered, with a keenness of interest that no theologian could have exceeded, whether, if the Devil were really present, he would know her thoughts.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The nursery tale could not vie with Her in simplicity, the wisest theologians could not match Her in profundity.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
I'm a theologian and my predecessor, Luther, took the side of the princes and plutocrats against the peasants.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
French theologian and Protestant reformer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Theologians generally take this to mean some kind of spiritual battle, with Gabriel fighting dark forces.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
Theologians justified the presence of corruption as a means by which men strove, were tested, and triumphed.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
On the other hand, Johannes Scotus Erigena, the great ninth-century theologian, accepted the idea.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
She explained to me the distinction between God's laws and the laws of nature, something theologians have debated for years.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
What he said had a freshness to it, perhaps an idea that he might entertain if he were a theologian.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
Ay, there is a mystery; but, to use a Scriptural phrase, it is 'a mystery of iniquity,' a matter for psychologic theologians to discuss.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
I am told that Galahad and Percivale were virgins; and Bors, although he was not quite a virgin, turned out to be a first-class theologian.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
"And yet they say he wasn't much of a theologian," said Mr Cunningham.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
During the Reformation, theologians looked to the old Hebrew Bible.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The week before he came, we'd had a famous theologian whose words sent the students scurrying to their rooms to hassle half the night.
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Not after saints, theologians or Jesuit martyrs.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
These are the houri, and some Islamic theologians have been quite specific in describing them.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
The problem of the theologian is to keep his symbol translucent, so that it may not block out the very light it is supposed to convey.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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