How to Use theological in a Sentence

theological

adjective
  • Mason doesn’t think the church has to be in such a theological bind.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • So much of the theological parsing may be left up to the jury.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In Luther’s time, the dispute centered on the role of Scripture in the theological life of Christians.
    Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The 3 French hens are Faith, Hope and Charity, the theological virtues.
    Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The 3 French hens are Faith, Hope, and Charity, the theological virtues.
    Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The parchment on which the poem was written was cut up and reused as binding in a Latin theological text.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2019
  • There is evil in the theological sense; there is evil in the quotidian sense.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • But things quickly take a turn as Reed engages the girls in theological debates while the lights go out, and the front door locks and refuses to budge.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • As the theological interpretation of Columbine has shown, the line between the two can be very thin.
    Peter Manseau, The New Republic, 5 June 2020
  • The sacrament is more than a set of theological beliefs.
    New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • Folks who are not on the right and increasingly the far right of the theological political spectrum do not find a home in SBC.
    Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This lurid language is a cousin to the theological zealotry that inspires radicals to lash out against writers.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The milieus of the stories vary, but the mood threading them together is one of confession, sometimes in the theological sense.
    The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • The Protestant and Catholic theological tensions in Europe became wrapped up in the toxic mix of the national and ethnic tensions of the time, Root said.
    Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
  • But his wild lifestyle remained at odds with his faith, and a conflicted Richard quit the business in 1957 to enroll in a theological school and get married.
    Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020
  • This is a parish with a very wide range of theological views and political views, but everybody gets along here, which is a rare thing in today’s world.
    Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2019
  • In all his years of theological and rabbinical study, Rabbi Grollman had learned what prayers to say for the dead but little if anything about how a person dies.
    Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • If deferring to your husband at home and speaking in tongues in prayer isn't your brand of theological vodka, then don’t join the People of Praise, or any Pentecostal church in the world.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The Advent was not asked to do anything to endorse or sponsor a theological viewpoint.
    al, 11 Dec. 2021
  • For her, this is a theological commitment, a reflection of her belief in the Imago Dei: the value of each of us, inclusive of our faults.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020
  • What would both faith leaders like to see come of these theological dialogues?
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
  • As a theological problem, this one has nearly broken the Church.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The film is filled with theological arguments that, while accepted by many Catholics, are fair grounds for debate.
    Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • But the book’s chief interest now stems from its own theological muddle.
    Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The two Episcopalians often made the White House a place of theological discussion.
    al, 4 Nov. 2022
  • My attempt in this article is not to be too theological but simply state the obvious that man’s real problem is what the Bible calls sin.
    The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Our Bible classes are meant to give theological moorings, but in the disciplines is where (students) are taught how to integrate their faith.
    Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Garza said that there is theological support for the idea of staying away from churches during a pandemic.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Because in 2,000 years of strident theological and moral dispute, there is nowhere even close to consensus.
    Walter McClure, Star Tribune, 27 June 2021
  • Playing them tends to raise the sorts of questions that have long been taken up by theological and tragic literature.
    Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 6 Oct. 2021

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