Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Religious Doctrines

Theology (Religious Knowledge)

Nouns
  • theology (natural and revealed)
  • theogony, theosophy
  • divinity
  • hagiology, hagiography
  • Caucasian mystery
  • monotheism
  • religion
  • religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination
  • creed etc. (belief) Belief
  • article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith. theologue, theologian
  • scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist
  • the Fathers.
Adjectives

Orthodoxy

Nouns
  • orthodoxy
  • strictness, soundness, religious truth, true faith
  • truth etc. [Object of knowledge.] Truth
  • soundness of doctrine. Christianity, Christianism
  • Catholicism, Catholicity
  • the faith once delivered to the saints
  • " hyperorthodoxy etc. Heterodoxy [Sectarianism.]
  • iconoclasm. The Church
  • Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church
  • temple of the Holy Ghost
  • Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ
  • Christian, Christian community
  • true believer
  • canonist etc. (theologian) [Religious Knowledge.] Theology
  • Christendom, collective body of Christians. canons etc. (belief) Belief
  • thirty nine articles
  • Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed
  • Church Catechism
  • textuary.
Adjectives
  • orthodox, sound, strick, faithful, catholic, schismless, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic
  • true etc. [Object of knowledge.] Truth.
Phrases
  • of the true faith.

Heterodoxy (Sectarianism)

Nouns
  • heterodoxy
  • error etc. Error
  • false doctrine, heresy, schism
  • schismaticism, schismaticalness
  • recusancy, backsliding, apostasy
  • atheism etc. (irreligion) Irreligion. bigotry etc. (obstinacy) Obstinacy
  • fanaticism, iconoclasm
  • hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, bibliolatry, sabbatarianism, puritanism
  • anthropomorphism
  • idolatry etc. Idolatry
  • superstition etc. (credulity) Credulity
  • dissent etc. Dissent. sectarism, sectarianism
  • noncomformity
  • secularism
  • syncretism. [religious sects.] protestantism, Arianism, Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism, Erastianism, Calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, Puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism, Deism, Theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism etc. High Church, Low Church, Broad Church, Free Church
  • ultramontanism
  • papism, papistry
  • monkery
  • papacy
  • Anglicanism, Catholicism, Romanism
  • popery, Scarlet Lady, Church of Rome, Greek Church. paganism, heathenism, ethicism
  • mythology
  • polytheism, ditheism, tritheism
  • dualism
  • heathendom. Judaism, Gentilism, Islamism, Islam, Mohammedanism, Babism, Sufiism, Neoplatonism, Turcism, Brahminism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Hylotheism, Mormonism
  • Christian Science. heretic, apostate, antichrist
  • pagan, heathen
  • painim, paynim
  • giaour
  • gentile
  • pantheist, polytheist
  • idolator. schismatic
  • sectary, sectarian, sectarist
  • seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter
  • nonconformist, nonjuror. bigot etc. (obstinacy) Obstinacy
  • fanatic, abdal, iconoclast. latitudinarian, Deist, Theist, Unitarian
  • positivist, materialist
  • Homoiousian, Homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian
  • skeptic etc. Irreligion. Protestant
  • Huguenot
  • orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent
  • Episcopalian, Presbyterian
  • Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan
  • Ana, Baptist
  • Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian
  • Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian
  • Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian
  • Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian
  • Faith Curer, Curist
  • Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker etc.
  • ultramontane
  • Anglican, Oxford School
  • tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist
  • Puritan. Catholic, Roman, Catholic, Romanist, papist. Jew, Hebrew, Rabbinist, Rabbist, Sadducee
  • Babist, Motazilite
  • Mohammedan, Mussulman, Moslem, Shiah, Sunni, Wahabi, Osmanli. Brahmin, Brahman
  • Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist
  • Magi, Gymnosophist, fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Rosicrucian etc.
Adjectives
  • heterodox, heretical
  • unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical
  • antiscriptural, apocryphal
  • unchristian, antichristian
  • schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic
  • sectarian
  • dissenting, dissident
  • secular etc., (lay) Laity. pagan
  • heathen, heathenish
  • ethnic, ethnical
  • gentile, paynim
  • pantheistic, polytheistic. Judaical, Mohammedan, Brahminical, Buddhist etc. n.
  • Romish, Protestant etc. n.. bigoted etc. (prejudiced) Misjudgment, (obstinate) Obstinacy
  • superstitious etc. (credulous) Credulity
  • fanatical
  • idolatrous etc. Idolatry
  • visionary etc. (imaginative) Imagination.
Phrases
  • slave to no sect" [Pope]

Judeo-Christian Revelation

Nouns
  • revelation, inspiration, afflatus
  • theophany, theopneusty. Word, Word of God
  • Scripture
  • the Scriptures, the Bible
  • Holy Writ, Holy Scriptures
  • inspired writings, Gospel. Old Testament, Septuagint, Vulgate, Pentateuch
  • Octateuch
  • the Law, the Jewish Law, the Prophets
  • major Prophets, minor Prophets
  • Hagiographa, Hagiology
  • Hierographa
  • Apocrypha. New Testament
  • Gospels, Evangelists, Acts, Epistles, Apocalypse, Revelations. Talmud
  • Mishna, Masorah. prophet etc. (seer) Oracle
  • evangelist, apostle, disciple, saint
  • the Fathers, the Apostolical Fathers
  • Holy Men of old, inspired penmen.
Adjectives
  • scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic
  • evangelical, evangelistic
  • apostolic, apostolical
  • inspired, theopneustic, theophneusted, apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, canonical, textuary.

Pseudo-Revelation

Nouns
  • the Koran, the Alcoran
  • Lyking, Vedas, Zendavesta, Avesta, Sastra, Shastra, Tantra, Upanishads, Purana, Edda
  • Book of Mormon. [Non-Biblical prophets and religious founders] Gautama, Buddha
  • Zoroaster, Confucius, Bab-ed-Din, Mohammed. [Idols] golden calf etc. Idolatry
  • Baal, Moloch, Dagon.