CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Christian theology

... no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and admits of no conclusion. Not any thing can be studied as a science without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is not the case with Christian theology, it is therefore ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... involves moral requirements and pre-supposes a moral character. Schleiermacher has been charged with ignoring the difference between the two disciplines, but with scant justice. For, while he regards the two subjects as but different branches of Christian theology, and insists upon their intimate connection, he does not neglect their distinction. There has been a growing tendency to accentuate the difference, and recent writers such as Jacoby, Haering and Lemme, not to mention Martensen, Dorner and ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander