Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine,or more broadly of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline,typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural,but also deals with religious epistemology,asks and seeks to answer the question of revelation. Revelation pertains to the acceptance of God,gods,or deities,as not only transcendent or above the natural world,but also willing and able to interact with the natural world and to reveal themselves to humankind.
Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) is a private Unification Church-affiliated graduate seminary headquartered in Midtown Manhattan,New York City,New York. The seminary was granted an absolute charter from the State of New York in January 1984 and received accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in November 1996.
Luís Fróis was a Portuguese missionary who worked in Asia during the second half of the 16th century.
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (UTS) is a private ecumenical Christian liberal seminary in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,affiliated with Columbia University. Since 1928,the seminary has served as Columbia's constituent faculty of theology. In 1964,UTS also established an affiliation with the neighboring Jewish Theological Seminary of America. UTS confers the following degrees:Master of Divinity (MDiv),Master of Divinity &Social Work dual degree (MDSW),Master of Arts in Religion (MAR),Master of Arts in Social Justice (MASJ),Master of Sacred Theology (STM),and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
Alessandro Valignano,S.J.,sometimes Valignani,was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary born in Chieti,part of the Kingdom of Naples,who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East,and especially to Japan and China.
Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem),officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church,is a private school of theology in Princeton,New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander,the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA),and the College of New Jersey,it is the second-oldest seminary in the United States. It is also the largest of ten seminaries associated with the Presbyterian Church.
Luis Sotelo,OFM,in English known also as Louis Sotelo,was a Franciscan friar from Spain who died as a martyr in Japan,in 1624,and was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.
Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary (Garrett) is a private seminary and graduate school of theology related to the United Methodist Church and is ecumenical in spirit. It is located in Evanston,Illinois,on the campus of Northwestern University. The seminary offers master's- and doctoral-level degrees,as well as certificate,micro-credentialing,and lifelong learning programs. It has thousands of alumni serving in ministry,education,organizational leadership,and public service throughout the world.
João Rodrigues,distinguished as Tçuzu and also known by other names in China and Korea,was a Portuguese sailor,warrior,and Jesuit interpreter,missionary,priest,and scholar in Japan and China. He is now best known for his linguistic works on the Japanese language,including The Art of the Japanese Language. He was also long erroneously supposed to have been the main compiler of the first Japanese–Portuguese dictionary,published in 1603.
Usa Jingū (宇佐神宮),also known as Usa Hachimangū (宇佐八幡宮),is a Shinto shrine in the city of Usa in Ōita Prefecture in Japan. Emperor Ojin,who was deified as Hachiman-jin,is said to be enshrined in all the sites dedicated to him;and the first and earliest of these was at Usa in the early 8th century. The Usa Jingūhas long been the recipient of Imperial patronage;and its prestige is considered second only to that of Ise.
Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa was an eminent Japanese American scholar in religious studies. He was professor emeritus and dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is considered one of the founders of the field of the history of religions. He is particularly known for his outstanding contributions to the study of religious traditions in Asia and intercultural understanding of the East and the West.
St. Paul's College of Macau also known as College of Madre de Deus was a university founded in 1594 in Macau by Jesuits at the service of the Portuguese under the Padroado treaty. It claims the title of the first Western university in East Asia.
Christianity and colonialism are often closely associated with each other due to the service of Christianity,in its various sects,as the state religion of the historical European colonial powers,in which Christians likewise made up the majority. Through a variety of methods,Christian missionaries acted as the "religious arms" of the imperialist powers of Europe. According to Edward E. Andrews,Associate Professor of Providence College Christian missionaries were initially portrayed as "visible saints,exemplars of ideal piety in a sea of persistent savagery". However,by the time the colonial era drew to a close in the later half of the 20th century,missionaries were viewed as "ideological shock troops for colonial invasion whose zealotry blinded them",colonialism's "agent,scribe and moral alibi".
Yusuhara Hachiman-gū (柞原八幡宮),also known as Yasuhara Shrine,is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Oita,Oita on the island of Kyushu.
Kyōgoku Maria (京極マリア) or Yōfuku-in (養福院) was a Japanese noble lady and religious leader from the Sengoku period to the early Edo period. She was the second daughter of Azai Hisamasa as well as Azai Nagamasa's elder sister and the mother of Kyōgoku Takatsugu and Kyōgoku Takatomo. She was the mostly successful woman catechist with her own assistants as well as NaitōJulia and her women catechists. She faced the rules of samurai governments,staying true to her missionary campaigns even when Christianity was banned in Japan.
Marcia Y. Riggs is an American author,the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics,and the Director of ThM Program at Columbia Theological Seminary,a womanist theologian,and a recognized authority on the black woman’s club movement of the nineteenth century. She was one of six Luce Scholars named by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) and The Henry Luce Foundation,Inc. as Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2017-2018.
Elizabeth Ann Clark was a professor of the John Carlisle Kilgo professorship of religion at Duke University. She was notable for her work in the field of Patristics,and the teaching of ancient Christianity in US higher education. Clark expanded the study of early Christianity and was a strong advocate for women,pioneering the application of modern theories such as feminist theory,social network theory,and literary criticism to ancient sources.
Ōtomo-Nata Jezebel or Lady Nata was a Japanese noble woman from the Sengoku period. Daughter of Nata Akimoto,she was a high priestess of Usa Jingū. She was the first wife of Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin. She actively resisted against the Jesuit mission in Japan and the spread of Christianity in Kyushu.
E. Jane Dempsey Douglass is an American Presbyterian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. She was a professor at Claremont Graduate School before becoming the Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Douglass served as the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches from 1990 to 1997,making her the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches.
