The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, provides the reader a critical overview of the main theological questions and related topics, including concepts, events, councils, theologians, philosophers, movements, and more.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• A
• Abelard, Peter
• Abortion
• Action
• Adam
• Adoptionism
• Agape
• Agnosticism
• Albert the Great
• Alexandria, School of
• Alphonsus Liguori
• Ambrose of Milan
• Anabaptists
• Analogy
• Angels
• Anglicanism
• Anhypostasy
• Animals
• Anointing of the Sick
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Anthropology
• Anthropomorphism
• Antinomianism
• Antinomy
• Antioch, School of
• Apocalyptic Literature
• Apocatastasis
• Apocrypha
• Apollinarianism
• Apologists
• Apostle
• Apostolic Fathers
• Apostolic Succession
• Appropriation
• Architecture
• Arianism
• Aristotelianism, Christian
• Arminianism
• Asceticism
• Aseitas
• Athanasius of Alexandria
• Atheism
• Attributes, Divine
• Augustine of Hippo
• Augustinianism
• Authority
• B
• Balthasar, Hans Urs von
• Bañezianism-Molinism-Baianism
• Baptism
• Baptists
• Barth, Karl
• Basel-Ferrara-Florence, Council of
• Basil (The Great) of Caesarea
• Beatitude
• Beauty
• Beguines
• Being
• Bellarmine, Robert
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Bérulle, Pierre de
• Bible
• Biblical Theology
• Bishop
• Blessing
• Blondel, Maurice
• Boethius
• Bonaventure
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
• Book
• Bucer, Martin
• Bultmann, Rudolf
• C
• Calvin, John
• Calvinism
• Canon Law
• Canon of Scriptures
• Carmel
• Casuistry
• Catechesis
• Catharism
• Catholicism
• Chalcedon, Council of
• Character
• Charisma
• Chartres, School of
• Childhood, Spiritual
• Choice
• Christ/Christology
• Christ's Consciousness
• Chrysostom, John
• Church
• Church and State
• Circumincession
• City
• Cleric
• Collegiality
• Communion
• Conciliarism
• Confirmation
• Congregationalism
• Conscience
• Constance, Council of
• Constantinople I, Council of
• Constantinople II, Council of
• Constantinople III, Council of
• Constantinople IV, Council of
• Consubstantial
• Consubstantiation
• Contemplation
• Conversion
• Cosmos
• Council
• Couple
• Covenant
• Creation
• Credibility
• Creeds
• Crusades
• Cult
• Cult of Saints
• Cyprian of Carthage
• Cyril of Alexandria
• D
• Dante
• Deacon
• Deaconesses
• Death
• Decalogue
• Deism and Theism
• Deity
• Democracy
• Demons
• Descartes, René
• Descent into Hell
• Devotio moderna
• Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
• Diphysitism
• Docetism
• Doctor of the Church
• Dogma
• Dogmatic Theology
• Donatism
• Duns Scotus, John
• E
• Ecclesiastical Discipline
• Ecclesiology
• Ecology
• Ecumenism
• Edwards, Jonathan
• Enlightenment
• Ephesus, Council of
• Epiclesis
• Epieikeia
• Erasmus, Desiderius
• Erastianism
• Eschatology
• Eternity of God
• Ethics
• Ethics, Autonomy of
• Ethics, Medical
• Ethics, Sexual
• Eucharist
• Evil
• Evolution
• Exegesis
• Existence of God, Proofs of
• Exorcism
• Experience
• Expiation
• F
• Faith
• Family
• Family, Confessional
• Father
• Fathers of the Church
• Fear of God
• Febronianism
• Fideism
• Filiation
• Filioque
• Flesh
• Freedom, Religious
• Freud, Sigmund
• Fundamental Choice
• Fundamental Theology
• Fundamentalism
• G
• Gallicanism
• Glory of God
• Gnosis
• God
• Good
• Gospels
• Government, Church
• Grace
• Gratian (Francisco Gratiaziano)
• Gregory of Nazianzus
• Gregory of Nyssa
• Gregory Palamas
• Gregory the Great
• H
• Hardening
• Healing
• Heart of Christ
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
• Hegelianism
• Heidegger, Martin
• Hell
• Hellenization of Christianity
• Heresy
• Hermeneutics
• Hesychasm
• Hierarchy
• Hilary of Poitiers
• History
• History of the Church
• Holiness
• Holy Oils
• Holy Scripture
• Holy Spirit
• Hope
• Humanism, Christian
• Hus, Jan
• Hypostatic Union
• I
• Idioms, Communication of
• Idolatry
• Images
• Imitation of Christ
• Immutability/Impassibility, Divine
• Incarnation
• Inculturation
• Indefectibility of the Church
• Indulgences
• Inerrancy
• Infallibility
• Infinite
• Initiation, Christian
• Integrism
• Intellectualism
• Intention
• Intercommunion
• Intertestament
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Israel
• J
• Jansenism
• Jealousy, Divine
• Jerusalem
• Jesus, Historical
• Joachim of Fiore
• Johannine Theology
• John of the Cross
• Judaism
• Judeo-Christianity
• Judgment
• Jurisdiction
• Justice
• Justice, Divine
• Justification
• K
• Kant, Immanuel
• Kenosis
• Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye
• Kingdom of God
• Knowledge of God
• Knowledge, Divine
• L
• Lamb of God/Paschal Lamb
• Language, Theological
• Lateran I, Council
• Lateran II, Council
• Lateran III, Council
• Lateran IV, Council
• Lateran V, Council
• Law and Christianity
• Law and Legislation
• Lay/Laity
• Laying on of Hands
• Legitimate Defense
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhem
• Liberalism
• Liberation Theology
• Liberty
• Life, Eternal
• Life, Spiritual
• Limbo
• Literary Genres in Scripture
• Literature
• Liturgical Year
• Liturgy
• Local Church
• Loci Theologici
• Lonergan, Bernard John Francis
• Love
• Lubac, Henri Sonier de
• Luther, Martin
• Lutheranism
• Lyons I, Council of
• Lyons II, Council of
• M
• Magisterium
• Manicheanism
• Manning, Henry Edward
• Marcionism
• Market Economics, Morality of
• Marriage
• Martyrdom
• Marx, Karl
• Mary
• Mass, Sacrifice of the
• Mathematics and Theology
• Maximus the Confessor
• Mendicant Religious Orders
• Mercy
• Messalianism
• Messianism/Messiah
• Methodism
• Millenarianism
• Ministry
• Miracle
• Mission/Evangelization
• Modalism
• Modernism
• Monasticism
• Monogenesis/Polygenesis
• Monophysitism
• Monotheism
• Monothelitism/Monoenergism
• Montanism
• Moses
• Music
• Mystery
• Mysticism
• Myth
• N
• Name
• Narrative
• Narrative Theology
• Nationalism
• Natural Theology
• Naturalism
• Nature
• Negative Theology
• Neoplatonism
• Nestorianism
• Newman, John Henry
• Nicaea I, Council of
• Nicaea II, Council of
• Nicholas of Cusa
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhem
• Nominalism
• Notes, Theological
• Nothingness
• Novatianism
• O
• Obligation
• Omnipotence, Divine
• Omnipresence, Divine
• Ontologism
• Orders, Minor
• Ordination/Order
• Origen
• Orthodoxy
• Orthodoxy, Modern and Contemporary
• P
• Paganism
• Pagans
• Pantheism
• Parable
• Parousia
• Pascal, Blaise
• Passion
• Passions
• Passover
• Pastor
• Patriarchate
• Pauline Theology
• Peace
• Pelagianism
• Penance
• Pentecostalism
• People of God
• Person
• Peter
• Philosophy
• Pietism
• Pilgrimage
• Platonism, Christian
• Political Theology
• Pope
• Positive Theology
• Postmodernism
• Praise
• Prayer
• Preaching
• Precepts
• Predestination
• Presbyter/Priest
• Priesthood
• Process Theology
• Procreation
• Proexistence
• Promise
• Property
• Prophet and Prophecy
• Proportionalism
• Protestantism
• Protocatholicism
• Providence
• Prudence
• Psalms
• Punishment
• Purgatory
• Puritanism
• Purity/Impurity
• Q
• Quietism
• R
• Race
• Rahner, Karl
• Rationalism
• Realism
• Reason
• Reception
• Regional Church
• Relativism
• Relics
• Religion, Philosophy of
• Religions, Theology of
• Religious Life
• Renaissance
• Resurrection of Christ
• Resurrection of the Dead
• Revelation
• Revelations, Individual
• Revolution
• Rhineland-Flemish Mysticism
• Rites, Chinese
• Rome
• S
• Sabbath
• Sacrament
• Sacrifice
• Saint Victor, School of
• Salvation
• Scandal/Skandalon
• Scapegoat
• Scheeben, Matthias Joseph
• Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
• Schism
• Schleiermacher, Daniel Friedrich Ernst
• Scholasticism
• Sciences of Nature
• Scripture, Fulfillment of
• Scripture, Senses of
• Secularization
• Sensus Fidei
• Servant of YHWH
• Sheol
• Simplicity, Divine
• Sin
• Sin, Original
• Situation Ethics
• Skepticism, Christian
• Society
• Solidarity
• Solovyov, Vladimir
• Son of Man
• Sophiology
• Soul-Heart-Body
• Sovereignty
• Spiritual Combat
• Spiritual Direction
• Spiritual Theology
• Spirituality, Franciscan
• Spirituality, Ignatian
• Spirituality, Salesian
• Stoicism, Christian
• Structures, Ecclesial
• Suarez, Francisco
• Subordinationism
• Substance
• Sunday
• Supernatural
• Synergy
• Synod
• T
• Temple
• Temptation
• Tertullian
• Theological Schools
• Theologumen
• Theology
• Theophany
• Theosophy
• Thomas à Kempis
• Thomas Aquinas
• Thomism
• Tillich, Paul
• Time
• Trace (Vestige)
• Tradition
• Traditionalism
• Traducianism
• Translations of the Bible, Ancient
• Trent, Council of
• Trinity
• Tritheism
• Truth
• Truths, Hierarchy of
• Tübingen, Schools of
• U
• Ultramontanism
• Unitarianism/Anti-Trinitarianism
• Unity of the Church
• Universalism
• Universities
• Utilitarianism
• V
• Validity
• Vatican I, Council of
• Vatican II, Council of
• Vengeance of God
• Veracity
• Vienne, Council of
• Violence
• Virtues
• Vision, Beatific
• Voluntarism
• W
• Waldensians
• War
• Wholly Other
• Wisdom
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann
• Woman
• Word
• Word of God
• Work
• Works
• World
• World Council of Churches
• Wrath of God
• Z
• Zoroaster
• Zwingli, Huldrych
• Contributors