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theologian

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A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. Laurence J. Peter

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot

In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. Randall Jarrell

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. Martin Luther

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression. Thomas Szasz

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