Meaning of atheologian | Babel Free

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A person who is not a theologian, especially one who opposes theology.

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“I leaue heere to your owne conſiderations, the places, examples, and authorities of holy Scripture,which are miſtaken, and this Monſiure might alleage. For of this aſſure your ſelues, theſe Atheologians, or maimed Diuines, will no more faile therein, then the Negromancers do, in the inuocation of their ſpirits, and diuels,or in their healing of diſeaſes.”

“They of your ſociety , as they tooke their originall from a ſouldier,ſo they are the onely Atheologians whoſe heades entertaine no other obiect but the tumult of realmes; […]”

“To any one who knows what controversy really means the reading of such work as Dr. lightfoot.'s recently republished criticisms on Supernatural Religion, after the much-vaunted work of German theologians, or atheologians of the present day, or of their imitators and admirers in England, is like reading a proposition of Euclid after a speech of Mr. Gladstone's.”

“From this condition of our prevalent religious nurture we may distinctly trace the readiness of the Christian age to dispense with God and be satisfied with a fancied human evolution of the Christian morals that we are addicted to; according to the teaching of the brood of atheologians who are capturing our seminaries and invading our pulpits.”

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