Theology in the contemporary Western sense generally refers to the study of religion from the perspective of believers.
A theologian is someone who will read a Bible, believe that at least some portion of it is true, and debate aspects of salvation, creation, or divinity like the rapture, age of accountability, the after life, predestination, etc.
Mythology is the study of religion, specifically historical religion, from a more agnostic perspective. Christianity has mythology, but it *also* has theology.
Theology is interested in what one currently believes, Mythology is interested in what was once believed by others.
acegoesgaming511 on
Time. All mythology was religion at one point, there’s just not a large enough group worshiping or continuing the traditions of antiquity, if they haven’t been lost to time already, in our modern day to give them voices.
OneRacoonShort on
Points to the guy who actually put a solid answer, but I’ll ask, does anyone worship the Greek and Roman pantheon in the modern world (and don’t play the game of the Keven Hearne (author of the Iron Druid books, think Dresden Files, but different part of the world) way that gods and deities live on if their visage is in a place of prominence)
Ok-Department-2689 on
There’s a third category which is scientifical theories which need at least a basis of proven truth for to even be considered a scientific theory. A normal theory is just a guess like the Earth being Dorito shape
ahamel13 on
Mythology is sort of the “what happened” and theology is the “what does it mean.”
MegaVix on
If religion good, why bad thing?
JesterMcJester on
I think it comes down to popularity/Abrhamic Bias.
As someone mentioned while there probably are SOME people who worship the Greek/Roman or other polytheistic style gods. It pales in comparison to the BIG 3 that have shaped western and middle eastern culture. The big three Abrhamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule. However I do think this bias for: popularity, Abrhamic and also a single super diety as opposed to a pantheon is what determines it.
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Theology in the contemporary Western sense generally refers to the study of religion from the perspective of believers.
A theologian is someone who will read a Bible, believe that at least some portion of it is true, and debate aspects of salvation, creation, or divinity like the rapture, age of accountability, the after life, predestination, etc.
Mythology is the study of religion, specifically historical religion, from a more agnostic perspective. Christianity has mythology, but it *also* has theology.
Theology is interested in what one currently believes, Mythology is interested in what was once believed by others.
Time. All mythology was religion at one point, there’s just not a large enough group worshiping or continuing the traditions of antiquity, if they haven’t been lost to time already, in our modern day to give them voices.
Points to the guy who actually put a solid answer, but I’ll ask, does anyone worship the Greek and Roman pantheon in the modern world (and don’t play the game of the Keven Hearne (author of the Iron Druid books, think Dresden Files, but different part of the world) way that gods and deities live on if their visage is in a place of prominence)
There’s a third category which is scientifical theories which need at least a basis of proven truth for to even be considered a scientific theory. A normal theory is just a guess like the Earth being Dorito shape
Mythology is sort of the “what happened” and theology is the “what does it mean.”
If religion good, why bad thing?
I think it comes down to popularity/Abrhamic Bias.
As someone mentioned while there probably are SOME people who worship the Greek/Roman or other polytheistic style gods. It pales in comparison to the BIG 3 that have shaped western and middle eastern culture. The big three Abrhamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule. However I do think this bias for: popularity, Abrhamic and also a single super diety as opposed to a pantheon is what determines it.