different between theology vs spirituality

English

Etymology

From Middle English theologie, from Middle French theologie, from Old French theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek ???????? (theología), from ???????? (theológos, adjective), from ???? (theós) + ????? (lógos). Surface analysis is theo- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?-?l'?-j?, IPA^(key): /?i.??.l?.d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

theology (usually uncountable, plural theologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
2. (countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
3. (uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:theology.

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References

• theology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• theology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “theology, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2015-03-19
• Walter W. Skeat, editor (1910) , “Theology”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new edition, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, OCLC 582746570, page 640.
• "theology" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

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• ethology

English

Etymology

From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spiritualitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?.??.t?u?æ.l?.t?/

Noun

spirituality (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualities)

1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
   • , "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness"

     a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality

   • If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.

   • 1841, Edward Bickersteth, A Treatise of Prayer

     Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.

2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
3. Appreciation for religious values.
4. (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.

   • During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.

5. (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.

   • Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.

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