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Religion and Theology

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Religion and Theology at University of Bristol

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: humanities
University website: www.bristol.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Religion
There is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophesies, ethics, or organizations, that claims to relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
Theology
Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries.
Religion
Take care what you are about, for unless you base all this on religion, you are only making so many clever devils.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Philip Henry, Fifth Earl Stanhope, Notes of Conversation with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851 (1886). Talking about non-denominational education, often paraphrased as "Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils".
Theology
Theology must either regress to blind faith or progress towards free philosophy.
Friedrich Engels, Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (January 1844), Published in Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher [1]
Theology
Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.
Theology is Anthropology. Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity ["Wesen des Christenthums"], Preface to the 2nd Ed. (1843). Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity ["Wesen des Christenthums"], Preface to the 2nd Ed. (1843).
Understanding how glacier sliding and iceberg calving contribute to loss in ice sheet models can improve predictions of global sea-level changes. This is hampered by the inaccessibility of a glacier's base and its calving front.
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