How to Use theologian in a Sentence

theologian

noun
  • Oh, well, those theologians do have more empathy than the rest of us.
    — The Hive, 12 May 2017
  • Other Catholic moral theologians say the church’s ban is not so clear-cut.
    — Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2016
  • Dreher spends much of his time with monks, back-to-the-land theologians, and exorcists.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Surfers, like theologians, must wrestle with the problem of evil.
    — James Ryerson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2017
  • What theologians in the meantime come up with may not make all men comfortable.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Priests and theologians want to shape the future of AI.
    — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
  • All humans are image-bearers of God, as theologians call them.
    — Courtney Reissig, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • For them, Scholem is far more than a historian, far more even than a theologian.
    — George Prochnik, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Many shared a quote from South African theologian Desmond Tutu.
    — Washington Post, 1 June 2020
  • Vance's use of the term sparked a debate on social media over its meaning among theologians and public figures.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The center is well-known for its president, theologian Scott Hahn.
    — Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But theologians are more skeptical.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • But also absent are the lay German theologians seen as among the faith’s most liberal voices.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Also on the bill was a Jesuit theologian who spoke about the Book of Genesis.
    — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Tillich was a German philosopher and theologian who left the country after the Nazis rose to power.
    — Mordechai Gordon, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Most of the era’s discourse about human generation came from monks and theologians who vowed never to have any contact with women’s bodies.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The young theologian was horrified by the protest culture that swept through Europe in the 1960s.
    — Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
  • While women cannot be ordained as priests or deacons, they are not forbidden from teaching the faith as theologians, catechists and scholars.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • For Christian theologians and moral philosophers, love can refer to an emotion, an affection, a duty and, yes, a virtue.
    — Tucker J. Gregor, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The winners—the lords and mainstream theologians who were the peasants’ enemies—instead wrote the history.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Tricia Hersey, artist, activist, theologian, and founder of The Nap Ministry agrees.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The merest departure from orthodoxy whipped its theologians into a lather.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Many Catholic theologians believe that ordinary care and treatment such as feeding tubes, on the other hand, should be continued.
    — Robert S. Olick, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Calvinism, named for the Protestant theologian John Calvin, is a centuries-old Christian school of thought.
    — refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Some theologians argued that Adam and Eve, as well as all the animals in the Garden of Eden, ate only plants.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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