All 9 Uses of
theology
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Jude the Obscure
- Then one of the three enthusiasts he had seen just now, the author of the Apologia: "My argument was …. that absolute certitude as to the truths of natural theology was the result of an assemblage of concurring and converging probabilities …. that probabilities which did not reach to logical certainty might create a mental certitude."†
Part 2
- As Jude was rather on an intellectual track than a theological, this news of Sue's probable opinions did not much influence him one way or the other, but the clue to her whereabouts was decidedly interesting.†
Part 2
- Slowly Jude unfolded to the curate his late plans and movements, by an unconscious bias dwelling less upon the intellectual and ambitious side of his dream, and more upon the theological, though this had, up till now, been merely a portion of the general plan of advancement.†
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- The old fancy which had led on to the culminating vision of the bishopric had not been an ethical or theological enthusiasm at all, but a mundane ambition masquerading in a surplice.†
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- There was a theological college at Melchester; Melchester was a quiet and soothing place, almost entirely ecclesiastical in its tone; a spot where worldly learning and intellectual smartness had no establishment; where the altruistic feeling that he did possess would perhaps be more highly estimated than a brilliancy which he did not.†
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- This would allow him plenty of time for deliberate study, and for acquiring capital by his trade to help his aftercourse of keeping the necessary terms at a theological college.†
Part 3
- He found an ample supply of theological books in the city book-shops, and with these his studies were recommenced in a different spirit and direction from his former course.†
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- I am absorbed in theology, you know.†
Part 3
- At dusk that evening he went into the garden and dug a shallow hole, to which he brought out all the theological and ethical works that he possessed, and had stored here.†
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Definition:
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(theology) the study of religion; or a particular system or school of religious beliefs