Theology
Theology the study of the nature of God and religious belief.
- Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing.
- Ecclesiology usually now refers to the theological study of the Christian Church.
- Biblical cosmology is the biblical writers' conception of the Cosmos as an organised, structured entity, including its origin, order, meaning and destiny.
- Eschatology the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- Sophiology (from Greek Σοφία "sophia", wisdom) is a philosophical concept regarding wisdom, as well as a theological concept regarding the wisdom of God.
- Salvation, in Christianity, is the saving of the soul from sin and its consequences. It may also be called "deliverance" or "redemption" from sin and its effects.
- Christian soteriology ranges from exclusive salvation to universal reconciliation concepts.
- The term "exotheology" was coined in the 1960s or early 1970s[1] for the examination of theological issues as they pertain to extraterrestrial intelligence.