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Example sentences for: theologian
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"Noted attorney and amateur theologian Alan Dershowitz, protesting a parking ticket with his usual élan."
The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.
"As for Tony Blair, crusader for universal values, theologian of the just war in Kosovo, he has been conspicuous by his silence."
Michael Novak, a theologian at the American Enterprise Institute, sums up the basic premise of this approach, saying that without lively attention to reason, Judaism and Christianity fall into sentimentality, superstition, and self-parody.
That he was a theologian there can be little doubt, and anyone would have been able with the help of his dictionary to plough through a sermon on predestination or a debate on the difference between transubstantiation and consubstantiation.