Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. Theology, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: “the subsisting or scientific explanation of religious and spiritual phenomena and doctrines; systematic and generally accepted beliefs and doctrines about God, God’s attributes, and God’s relationship to human beings.”

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