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Theologian vs theologist

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:29 pm
by IceMobster
What is the difference? Is there any?

Re: Theologian vs theologist

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:39 pm
by RickD
IceMobster wrote:What is the difference? Is there any?
Google is your friend.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/theologist

Re: Theologian vs theologist

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:40 pm
by Storyteller
Same thing.

Thats what I did :mrgreen:

Re: Theologian vs theologist

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:42 pm
by IceMobster
In that case, what the hell?
http://discussions.godandscience.org/vi ... 92#p139992
Jac3510 wrote:Maimonides, who with St. Thomas Aquinas is perhaps the most balanced of all medieval theologians, has described in a masterly manner the sort of game which these men [theologists; not to be confused with theologians] were playing.

Re: Theologian vs theologist

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:52 pm
by Jac3510
In the context I was writing in, a theologist is someone who confuses theology with philosophy. That is, it is someone who thinks they are doing philosophy but is actually doing theology. The results are predictable. Absolute skepticism about any and everything. That particular line you bring up comes from a book I've often quoted here: The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson. Go read the first chapter linked there, and if it is to your liking, I very, very, very highly recommend buying and reading the rest. That chapter, fyi, is about what Gilson calls "logicism," but you'll very easily make the connection the "theologism."