Literary notes about theological (AI summary)
The term "theological" in literature carries a multifaceted role, at times highlighting an inherent religious or doctrinal bias and at other moments pointing to formal academic pursuits or debates. It is used to suggest that a thinker or writer might be guided by deeply ingrained doctrinal principles—as when one speaks of a philosophical bias toward religious morality ([1]) or denotes a curriculum steeped in religious studies ([2], [3]). Equally, the word appears in more abstract contexts, drawing analogies between faith and natural phenomena ([4], [5]) and marking the intensity of doctrinal disputes or ethical dilemmas ([6], [7], [8]). In this way, "theological" enriches literary language by bridging empirical debate with cultural and spiritual heritage.
- Kant's theological bias, his unconscious dogmatism, his moral outlook, ruled, guided, and directed him.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - He afterwards returned to New York, and entered the Union Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1904.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - A theological college also exists at this place.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - But the point itself is as hard as any geometrical diagram; as abstract as any theological dogma.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton - No theological controversy, in the earlier ages of the Catholic Church, was ever conducted with greater bitterness.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay - With this same version of the Bible, and the same ability to read it, we find that it has filled all Christendom with theological confusion.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - At a very premature age, even before my fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics, and in theological controversy.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
