Abstract
What is meant by the term "theology" as it is used in this treatise? Like the term "religion," theology is
used by different people to label many things that are quite different from one another. A general
definition covering all these different usages would have to be a definition that makes abstraction of
everything that is different and retains only that which is common to all of them. But is there in fact
anything that is common to all the different ways people use the term "theology"? If there is then will
there be enough left in the definition for anyone to make practical use of it after one makes abstraction of
all the differences that exist in how the term is used?