Monotheistic

Belief in one God

Polytheistic

Belief in many gods

Agnostic

Unsure about the existence of God or gods

Atheistic

Denying that God or gods exist

Religion

A worldview that involves belief in God or gods, or some unseen power or powers, something beyond the human existence

Revelation

Deliberate self-disclosure of God (or the gods) to humanity

Theology

the study of God; discourse concerning the divine; God talk. For Anselm “faith seeking understanding”

Doctrines

Official religious teachings

Christian faith

A response to revelation, begins with belief in God and in God’s son, Jesus Christ. It also involves trust in God and Jesus

Moral theology

focuses on the values arising from the Bible and Christian beliefs and practices and attempts to identify the behaviors that are congruent and incongruent with these
values

Sacramental theology

Also known as liturgical theology, focuses on the study of Christian worship

Spirituality

investigates various forms of prayer and religious practice that orient persons toward God (or the divine) and that direct the way they live in the world

Theological anthropology

pertains to the study of human beings in relation to God and God’s creation.

Soteriology

pertains to the study of salvation

Pluralism

the presence of different religious or cultural groups within a single society

Secularism

the belief that religion has no place in the civic or political realm

Summa Theologica

Thomas Aquinas’s comprehensive systematic examination of Christian theology