pisteology

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noun

The science or study of faith.

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nounpisteology (uncountable)

alternative pistology

  1. rareuncountablehuman sciencesThe science or study of faith.

    The assertion of a receptivity in man, the Catholic-type conception of the gratia preveniens which runs alongside this receptivity, the mystical culmination of this pisteology, are all elements of a speculative basic approach which can even be seen here, in Dorner.

    2002, Karl Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century, page 568

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekπίστις“faith”
  2. Englishpisteology

From Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith”) + -ology.

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