theologist

Updated: June 18, 2025

The scientist tells what he knows, and the theologist what he believes."

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

However, said she, even if they succeeded, it would doubtless cost them a large sum. Monsignor Palma, a theologist expert in all canonical affairs, and a perfectly honest man in pecuniary matters, had met with a great misfortune in his life.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3

But, I trow, ye are deaf as adders upon that side of the head; aye, ye are deceived with her enchantments, and ye traffic with her merchandise, and ye are drunk with the cup of her fornication! How much longer this military theologist might have continued his invective, in which he spared nobody but the scattered remnant of HILL-FOLK, as he called them, is absolutely uncertain.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

God meant it for her. He has endowed her with the religious sentiment in its utmost depth and purity, refined from that gross, intellectual alloy with which every masculine theologist save only One, who merely veiled himself in mortal and masculine shape, but was, in truth, divine has been prone to mingle it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Blithedale Romance

Ned, however, although but a poor theologist, gave answer, to all his arguments, that he could in no way reply to the reasonings of the priest; but that he was, nevertheless, convinced of their error, and sure that a divine of his church would have found replies to difficulties to which he could see no outlet.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main

But, I trow, ye are deaf as adders upon that side of the head; ay, ye are deceived with her enchantments, and ye traffic with her merchandise, and ye are drunk with the cup of her fornication! How much longer this military theologist might have continued his invective, in which he spared nobody but the scattered remnant of HILL-FOLK, as he called them, is absolutely uncertain.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 2

However, said she, even if they succeeded, it would doubtless cost them a large sum. Monsignor Palma, a theologist expert in all canonical affairs, and a perfectly honest man in pecuniary matters, had met with a great misfortune in his life.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete