How to Use theologian in a Sentence

theologian

noun

• And the white church and its theologians hated him for it.
  — Eboni Marshall Turman, The Root, 7 May 2018
• Other Catholic moral theologians say the church’s ban is not so clear-cut.
  — Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2016
• Oh, well, those theologians do have more empathy than the rest of us.
  — vanityfair.com, 12 May 2017
• The young theologian was horrified by the protest culture that swept through Europe in the 1960s.
  — Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• Surfers, like theologians, must wrestle with the problem of evil.
  — James Ryerson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2017
• Many shared a quote from South African theologian Desmond Tutu.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2020
• Also on the bill was a Jesuit theologian who spoke about the Book of Genesis.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
• Old-time philosophers -- and most theologians -- say yes.
  — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Tricia Hersey, artist, activist, theologian, and founder of The Nap Ministry agrees.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 27 Dec. 2022
• Calvinism, named for the Protestant theologian John Calvin, is a centuries-old Christian school of thought.
  — refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Her efforts have left her with more respect for the ancients and theologians like Edwards than the physicists.
  — Richard Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The great 20th-century theologian Karl Barth counseled preachers to preach with a Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2021
• The theologians of the religion that formed in his name had to contend with the question of the nature and status of their messiah and his relation to the one God.
  — Jerome E. Copulsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• But that’s the word Essebsi used, suggesting that there’s room for new readings, and some theologians agree.
  — Jihen Laghmari, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• For them, Scholem is far more than a historian, far more even than a theologian.
  — George Prochnik, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
• Such havoc did the Newtonian theory and the comet of 1680 work in the hands of this eccentric theologian!
  — National Geographic, 30 Dec. 2016
• The medieval Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas believed that the nature of things is revealed by their purpose.
  — Alexis Papazoglou, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
• All humans are image-bearers of God, as theologians call them.
  — Courtney Reissig, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• Hearing her discuss the Old Testament, Exodus, the pharaohs and Joseph, the pope pronounced her a theologian.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
• Since its inception, the library has been a resource for theologians and people just looking for a quiet place to work.
  — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2020
• Your signs and Justin’s both put me in mind of what theologian Walter Brueggemann has said about prophetic language working like a pickaxe.
  — Emily Raboteau, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2020
• For the theologian, the question is how to reconcile the malevolence and suffering of the world with the existence of an all-good, all-powerful god.
  — James Ryerson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2017
• This, according to one guess, is where the nun, theologian, poet, and composer Hildegard of Bingen spent about forty years of her eight-decade life.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The theologian became a celebrity, and with his celebrity came a following and a new religion: Lutheranism.
  — Katherine Arcement, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
• The fifth-century North African theologian lived and wrote as the western half of the Roman Empire entered its terminal phase.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 June 2020
• But also absent are the lay German theologians seen as among the faith’s most liberal voices.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the piece below, the theologian himself writes with moving simplicity, eloquence, and passion on the solitary life and the madness of the modern world.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
• But Parr was so much more than that — a spirited theologian, a keen political mind, and an author.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 June 2022
• No globe-trotting media darling or populist, Benedict was a teacher and theologian to the core: quiet and pensive with a fierce mind.
  — Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• Burr was the son of one president of Princeton and the grandson of another: Jonathan Edwards, the most famous theologian in 18th-century America.
  — Gordon S. Wood, Washington Post, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024