Meanings
alternative pistology
- 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
- Ancient Greekπίστις“faith”
- Englishpisteology
From Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith”) + -ology.
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