A more formal, academic discipline that applies scientific and philosophical methodologies to religious doctrine, texts, and experience. It uses historical criticism, linguistics, archaeology, and sociology to study religion as a human phenomenon, while also engaging in systematic theology to build coherent models of the divine. It's the bridge department where a professor might use quantum physics to model the concept of omnipresence one day and carbon-date a Dead Sea Scroll fragment the next.
Example: "His class in Theological Sciences was a trip: Monday was using game theory to model the Council of Nicaea, Wednesday was analyzing prayer-brainwave scans, and Friday was debating if AI could receive sacraments."
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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