the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) | the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place |
a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings | a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something |
the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) |