The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, theology.
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities, seminaries and schools of divinity.
Apologetics
Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing.
- Bahá'í: Bahá'í apologetics
- Muslim: Muslim apologists
Conceptions of God
Divine presence
Divine presence
God
Names of God
Singular God
- Absolute (philosophy)
- Brahman
- Emanationism
- God
- Logos
- More...
Binitarianism
- Binitarianism
Trinitarianism
- Trinity
- Trinitarian formula
- Athanasian Creed
- Comma Johanneum
- Consubstantiality
- Homoousian
- Hypostasis
- Perichoresis
- Shield of the Trinity
- Trinitarianism in the Church Fathers
- Trinitarian Universalism
- More...
Other views
- Aristotelian view of God
- Demiurge
- Divine simplicity
- Egotheism
- Godhead (Christianity)
- Godhead (Latter Day Saints)
- Great Architect of the Universe
- Great Spirit
- Apophatic theology
- Olelbis
- Open theism
- Personal god
- Phenomenological definition of God
- Philo's view of God
- Sarav viāpak
- Taryenyawagon
- Tian
- Unmoved mover
- More...
Eschatology
Eschatology, literally the "study of the last", is the part of theology and philosophy concerned with the end of the world.
- Afterlife
- Apocalypticism
- Buddhist
- Christian
- Concepts of Heaven
- Doomsday films
- Ghost Dance Movement
- Ghosts
- Hindu
- Islamic
- Jewish
- Personifications of death
- Singularitarianism
- Taoist
- Zoroastrian
- More
Existence of God
Arguments for
Arguments from
- A proper basis
- Beauty
- Consciousness
- Degree
- Desire
- Love
- Miracles
- Morality
- Reason
- Religious experience
Other arguments
- Christological
- Cosmological
- Ontological
- Pascal's wager
- Teleological
- Trademark
- Transcendental
- Witness
- More...
Arguments against
Arguments from
- Free will
- Inconsistent revelations
- Nonbelief
- Poor design
Other arguments
- God of the gaps
- Incompatible-properties argument
- Omnipotence paradox
- Problem of evil
- Problem of Hell
- Theological noncognitivism
- Transcendental argument for the existence of God
- More...
Opposition to religion
Theism
Theism in the broadest sense is the belief in the existence of a god or gods. In the more specific sense used here theism refers to a particular doctrine concerning the nature of a God and its relationship to the universe.
Theologies
Seminaries and theological colleges
Resources
- Theological libraries and librarianship
- List of theology journals
Practitioners
- Theologians
See also
