Word: theologist
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...Christian tradition, the term 'sexual relations' is reserved for sexual intercourse," said one audience member, a theologist at Boston College...
Administration theologist (George Will), classiest caterer (Finesse), top decorator (Ted Graber), happiest hobby (chopping wood), most dashing dress designer (Adolfo), most celebrated friend (Frank Sinatra) and the assistant President (Ed Meese...
...earth is a planet and moves round the sun did not attract the serious concern of the Inquisition until it began to look as if Galileo was proving it. His first brush with the Holy Office resulted in nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick old man scared into recantation...
...guided by thought, that is by reasonable laws, for if the world were only a mass of atoms without any controlling power there would be nothing stable or certain about it. So the physicist tries to understand God's thoughts as shown in the laws of matter, and the theologist tries to understand them in his spiritual laws. Religion is not by any means the same thing as theology. The one is the science of the study of God's nature, while the other is the art of obeying His laws and doing His work. A theologian is not necessarily...
...truth and which tries to bring theology to as reasonable and scientific a position as is possible. The first kind was the theology of the middle ages and it is but natural that this should always be at war with natural science. This struggle between science and the stagnant theologist has left an impression which gives to modern scientists a prejudice against theology, which is just as reasonable as the old theologian's prejudice against physics...
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