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Answer for the clue "Professor of divinity ", 10 letters:
theologist

Word definitions for theologist in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theologist \The*ol"o*gist\, n. A theologian.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Medieval Latin theologista , agent noun from theologizare , from Latin theologia (see theology ). Earlier in the same sense was theologician (1550s).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A theologian; one who is skilled, professes or practices of what relates with God.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology (especially Christian theology) [syn: theologian , theologizer , theologiser ]

Usage examples of theologist.

I care not in the least for theories, for this or that dogma of politicians or theologists, but take my stand on what I heard myself during my visits to the now ruined Jesuit missions in Paraguay.

But if very absurdity compels even these theologists themselves to shrink from this, it remains that they call that genius god by special and pre-eminent distinction, whom they call the soul of the world, and therefore Jupiter.

He devoured his sons, as the poets say, and the natural theologists interpret this as they list.

Nor could the giants, as theologists sometimes claim, have been interpolated into the texts later in order to symbolise evil.

Theosophists, theologists and philosophers have reflected about their teaching, about their master and his teaching.