THEOLOGY

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THEOLOGY , literally the science which deals with God or the gods. The word is

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

(0e6s, God; Xiyos, theory). But

doctrine

DOCTRINE

counted for less in

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

or Roman religion than in Christianity, and forms of

worship

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

for more. In the oldest usage BeoX6yoi were those who dealt in myths, like

Hesiod

HESIOD

and like the supposed

Orpheus

ORPHEUS

, the BeoX&yos par excellence.

Paul

PAUL
PAUL (PAULUS)

Natorp 1 contends that BeoXoyla in Plato 's Republic refers wholly to the

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

of myths. He further denies that

Aristotle

ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

identified his First Philosophy with a " theology," holding the text of the Metaphysics to be out of order and
1 Philosophische Monatshefte (1888), Heft 1 and 2. See also

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