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pneumatology
[ noo-muh-tol-uh-jee, nyoo- ]
noun
- Theology.
- doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit.
- the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
- the doctrine or theory of spiritual beings.
- Archaic. psychology.
- Obsolete. pneumatics.
pneumatology
/ ˌnjuːmətəˈlɒdʒɪkəl; ˌnjuːməˈtɒlədʒɪ /
noun
- the branch of theology concerned with the Holy Ghost and other spiritual beings
- an obsolete name for psychology
- an obsolete term for pneumatics
Derived Forms
- pneumatological, adjective
- ˌԱܳˈٴDZDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- Ա···Dz· [n, oo, -mat-l-, oj, -ik, ny, oo, -, noo-m, uh, -tl-, nyoo-], Աm·ٴ·Dzi· adjective
- Աm·ٴDZo· noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pneumatology1
Example Sentences
Pneumatology, or, as it was also called, Rational Psychology, has been already alluded to in the Introduction to the Logic as an abstract and generalising metaphysic of the subject.
Bush on Pneumatology, 309.—Satire on the Rappers, by J.R.
It is no more necessary in reading the Odyssey to go into the myth of the divinities concerned, than it would be in teaching Hamlet to make an exhaustive excursus into the pneumatology of the Ghost.
Learned pigs don’t believe in pneumatology, nor in astronomy, but in gastronomy.
Amidst this distraction of conflicting opinions, which no mediator could adequately reconcile,—without daring to contend with a host of discrepancies, or presuming to demolish the lofty edifices which scholastic Pneumatology had reared,—I determined to throw off the shackles of authority, and think for myself.
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