What is theology?

Answer:
Theology, according to its word structure, is ‘the

study of God’.

In the United States, theology tends to mean Christian theology, specifically. Christians believe that the main study of God comes from understanding the Bible, which is claimed to be the Word of God. The Bible also talks about Jesus, God’s Son, and the Living Word of God.

There are schools of theology, some Christian and some more philosophical. The more philosophical schools of theology are looking for understanding of a Higher Being and how many religions might play into our concept of that Higher Being. Christian theological schools often go by the name of a seminary. People who want to lead Christian congregations in established churches must usually graduate from a seminary.

Throughout the centuries since Jesus’s death, there have been many famous theologians, including Paul (Jesus’s apostle, who was converted on the Road to Damascus), Origen, Martin Luther, Calvin, and C.S. Lewis. Sometimes, the conclusions drawn from these theologians results in doctrine, which is a belief system based on an aspect of theology. The different sects of churches, Protestant and Catholic, come about because of these doctrines.