# Outline of theology

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.
* General: List of apologetic worksPolemicPositive DeconstructionMore...
* Bahá'í: Bahá'í apologetics
* Christian: Christian apologeticsChristian apologistsList of Christian apologetic worksEcumenical ApologeticsPresuppositional apologeticsEpistle to DiognetusTrilemmaUrmonotheismusMore...
* Muslim: Muslim apologists

## Conceptions of God

Part of a series on :
Theism :
Types of faith
Agnosticism
Apatheism
Atheism
Classical theism
Deism
Henotheism
Ietsism
Ignosticism
Monotheism
Monism
Dualism
Monolatry
Kathenotheism
Omnism
Pandeism
Panentheism
Pantheism
Polytheism
Transtheism :
Specific conceptions
Brahman
Creator
Demiurge
Deus
Father
Form of the Good
God
Great Architect
Monad
Mother
Summum bonum
Supreme Being
Sustainer
The Lord
Trinity
Tawhid
Ditheism
Monism
Personal
Unitarianism :
In particular religions
Abrahamic
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Baháʼí Faith
Mormonism
Mandaeism
Samaritanism
Indo-Iranian
Hinduism
Buddhism
Jainism
Sikhism
Yungdrung Bon
Zoroastrianism
Chinese
Tian
Shangdi
Hongjun Laozu :
Attributes
Eternalness
Existence
Gender
Names ("God")
Omnibenevolence
Omnipotence
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Aseity
Transcendence :
ExperiencesPractices
Belief
Esotericism
Faith
Fideism
Gnosis
Hermeticism
Metaphysics
Mysticism
Prayer
Revelation
Worship :
Related topics
Euthyphro dilemma
God complex
God gene
Theology
Ontology
Problem of evil (theodicy)
Religion
philosophy
texts
Portrayals of God in popular media
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### Divine presence

Divine presence

### God

* As the: DevilSustainer
* In: Abrahamic religionsBahá'í FaithBuddhismChristianityHinduismIslamJainismJudaismSikhismZoroastrianismMore...

### Names of God

* In: ChristianityHinduismIslamJudaismMore...

### 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

Part of a series on :
Theism :
Types of faith
Agnosticism
Apatheism
Atheism
Classical theism
Deism
Henotheism
Ietsism
Ignosticism
Monotheism
Monism
Dualism
Monolatry
Kathenotheism
Omnism
Pandeism
Panentheism
Pantheism
Polytheism
Transtheism :
Specific conceptions
Brahman
Creator
Demiurge
Deus
Father
Form of the Good
God
Great Architect
Monad
Mother
Summum bonum
Supreme Being
Sustainer
The Lord
Trinity
Tawhid
Ditheism
Monism
Personal
Unitarianism :
In particular religions
Abrahamic
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Baháʼí Faith
Mormonism
Mandaeism
Samaritanism
Indo-Iranian
Hinduism
Buddhism
Jainism
Sikhism
Yungdrung Bon
Zoroastrianism
Chinese
Tian
Shangdi
Hongjun Laozu :
Attributes
Eternalness
Existence
Gender
Names ("God")
Omnibenevolence
Omnipotence
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Aseity
Transcendence :
ExperiencesPractices
Belief
Esotericism
Faith
Fideism
Gnosis
Hermeticism
Metaphysics
Mysticism
Prayer
Revelation
Worship :
Related topics
Euthyphro dilemma
God complex
God gene
Theology
Ontology
Problem of evil (theodicy)
Religion
philosophy
texts
Portrayals of God in popular media
Religion portal :
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### 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

Part of a series on :
Atheism :
Concepts
Implicit and explicit atheism
Naturalism
Negative and positive atheism :
History
History of atheism
Atheism during the Age of Enlightenment
New Atheism :
Society
Atheist feminism
Criticism of religion
Demographics of atheism
Discrimination against atheists
Secular ethics
Secularism
Separation of church and state
State atheism :
ArgumentsArguments for atheism
Atheist's wager
Creator of God
Evil God challenge
Fate of the unlearned
Free will
God of the gaps
Hitchens's razor
Incompatible properties
Inconsistent revelation
Nonbelief
Occam's razor
Omnipotence paradox
Parody religion
Poor design
Problem of evil
Problem of Hell
Russell's teapot
Theological noncognitivism :
People
Lists of atheists
Julian Baggini
Mikhail Bakunin
Mario Bunge
Albert Camus
Richard Dawkins
Daniel Dennett
Denis Diderot
Ludwig Feuerbach
A. C. Grayling
Sam Harris
Christopher Hitchens
Baron d'Holbach
Lawrence Krauss
Michael Lou Martin
Karl Marx
Jean Meslier
Friedrich Nietzsche
Michel Onfray
Bertrand Russell
Peter Singer
Victor J. Stenger :
Books
Atheism: The Case Against God
Breaking the Spell
De rerum natura
The End of Faith
The God Delusion
God Is Not Great
The System of Nature :
Related stances
Irreligion
Agnosticism
Freethought
Secular humanism
Atheism and religion
Criticism of atheism :
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* Antireligion
* Anti-BuddhismCatholicismChristianityGnosticismHinduismIslam (CriticismPersecution)JudaismProtestantismAnti-cult movementZoroastrianismMore...
* Disengagement from religion
* Secularism
* Separation of church and state

## 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.
* List of belief systemsDeity (DivinityNumenMaleFemaleGender of)DeismDystheismHenotheismHermeticismKathenotheismNontheismMonolatrismMonotheismMysticismPanentheismPandeismPantheismPolydeismPolytheismSpiritualismTheopanismMore...

## Theologies

* Christian: of the BibleTermsChristologyCosmologyEcclesiologyEthicsHamartiologyLawMessianismMovementsNestorianismNew testamentOld testamentPhilosophyPracticalSophiologySoteriologyMore...
* Feminist: BuddhismChristianityHinduismIslamJudaismMormonismGoddessesMore...
* Hindu: Ayyavazhi theologyHindu philosophical conceptsKrishnologyMore...
* Islamic: AqidahMutazilitesShi'a theologyMore...
* Jewish: Abrahamic prophecyAngels in JudaismJewish mysticism
* Other: Death of GodExotheologyHolocaustPope Pius XIIProcessQueerZoroastrianMore...

## Seminaries and theological colleges

* AnglicanBuddhistEastern OrthodoxEvangelicalIslamicJewishLutheranMadrassasMethodistReformed ChurchRoman CatholicMore...

## Resources

* Theological libraries and librarianship
* List of theology journals

## Practitioners

* Theologians