theologist vs scholarly person

theologist and scholarly person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
theologist	Yes	No	No	No
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholarly person is a hypernym of theologist; that is, scholarly person is a word with a broader meaning than theologist:

theologist: someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of theologist include bookman, scholar.

theologist (noun)	scholarly person (noun)
someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines