Concept of Theology .

Running head: CONCEPT OF THEOLOGY
CONCEPT OF THEOLOGY
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1CONCEPT OF THEOLOGY
Theology is a study of God and the scriptures describing the nature of divine energy
(Berkhof, 2017). This paper will discuss about the meaning of Theology, the contextuality of
its existence and the evolving truth as a result of changing Theology which is formed by
following the direction of the Spirit.
Meaning of Theology is different for different culture. The basic meaning of
Theology is the research and analysis of scriptures, beliefs on religions, faith, experiences as
well as practices for understanding the presence and the existence of God and his relation
with the world with how he influences on everything. Theology is derived from theos, which
means ‘God’ in Greek and the next part ology means ‘word’, comes from the word logos,
which makes the literal meaning of Theology as ‘word about’ god’. A silent prayer to God
cannot be necessarily termed as Theology; it is needed to be convicted to connect with the
inclusive nurturing, ennobling and saving of power. At least, the talk should be true for the
people directly or in an indirect manner who is being referred to. Secondly, the statement
should be comprehensible. Theology in regards with Christianity reflects the understanding
of God and interpreting his revelation which are witnesses by human being. Theology in
Christianity, consider the unchanging concept of Theology where the love spread by God has
created mankind and was shown by his greatest sacrifice by consuming all the sins in the
world. Theology is contextual in nature as it depends on a particular culture and several
historical events. The concept of Theology serves as a base for people with various cultural
settings for establishing one faith of church to the whole world (Peters, 2017).
The root of contextual is the word context itself, which means all that circumstances
forming any set of events, any idea or statement and in some terms so that it can be
completely assessed and understood. Therefore, Contextual theology asserts the necessity of
cultural context to completely understand the passage of a Scripture. It refers to the idea
which reflects the statements of the God is not equally applicable to all people at every time
but some of the passages are needed to be interpreted as per the culture in reference to which