What is "theologians"

Usage examples of "theologians".

A just apprehension that the grammarians might become more important than the theologians, engaged the council of Trent to fix the seal of their infallibility on all the books of Scripture contained in the Latin Vulgate, in the number of which the Apocalypse was fortunately included.

As he was yet ignorant of the difficulty of appeasing the quarrels of theologians, he addressed to the contending parties, to Alexander and to Arius, a moderating epistle.

Julian had reason to expect that, in the space of a few years, the church would relapse into its primaeval simplicity, and that the theologians, who possessed an adequate share of the learning and eloquence of the age, would be succeeded by a generation of blind and ignorant fanatics, incapable of defending the truth of their own principles, or of exposing the various follies of Polytheism.

Yet, instead of assuming such honorable pride, the orthodox theologians were tempted, by the assurance of impunity, to compose fictions, which must be stigmatized with the epithets of fraud and forgery.

This may not be possible, for if the theologians do take over, in a few years the Listeners will be gone.

That Hubert had been acting for the theologians was a strong possibility, although now Theodosius found himself reluctant to admit it.

He had found no reluctance in believing it had been the theologians who had stolen the Heaven cubes, but theft and killing were two different things, not to be equated.

One robot, perhaps, one brain-twisted, deranged robot, but in the Decker killing, if Hubert had killed for the theologians, more than one robot was involved.

If we took back a worm, the theologians would have to agree that this is not Heaven.

Would what they had to say give the theologians some pause, stave off a little longer their take-over of Vatican and the Search Program?

By affirming the poverty of Christ, they were somehow strengthening the ideas of the imperial theologians, namely Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun.

Mustn’t we say, then, that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences, as many distinguished theologians teach?

We shall see in the end whether the Pope has his way or the theologians have theirs, the voice of the whole church, the very wishes of the people of God, the bishops.

How could he fore­see that Michael himself would later decide to support the theologians of the empire and to support the peo­ple in condemning the Pope?

Having observed that the theory of good and evil had at all times occupied the attention of philosophers and theologians, he adds: "Many suppose there to be two gods of opposite inclinations, one delighting in good, the other in evil.