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title: 'Thornwell’s Definition of Theology'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-11-07
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-thornwells-definition-of-theology
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# Thornwell’s Definition of Theology

“Theology, then, is precisely and definitely the science of true religion, or the science of the life of God in the soul of man.” — [**James H. Thornwell**](/authors/james-henley-thornwell), *Inaugural Discourse* (1857) in *Collected Writings* (1871) 1:578