Definition of theologian
: a specialist in theology
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Billy Graham is the closest that Google can manage to an important theologian or philosopher.
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Writer and theologian Diana Butler Bass provided a comprehensive overview of the verse’s original context on Twitter.
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Some prime numbers are named after Marin Mersenne, a French theologian and mathematician who studied them in the early 17th century.
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This adage comes from Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher, poet, theologian and the founder of existentialism.
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The school explains that its decisions about which contraceptives to cover under the plan were made in consultation with moral theologians and medical experts.
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It is named for the German pastor, theologian and Nazi-resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who wrote extensively about the moral and ethical implications of Christianity in the secular world.
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The list of authors includes a former Presbyterian pastor James R.E. Craighead, Methodist pastor and theologian Warren Ebinger, two poets and others with direct Oswego connections, museum officials said.
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The leading theologians of this consensus-supporting civil religion were Will Herberg and Reinhold Niebuhr.
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First Known Use of theologian
15th century
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: a person who is an expert on theology
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