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by boomboomsubban 2071 days ago
Isn't understanding god's rules for it's followers part of theology?

For example, in Catholicism, the Church is supposed to have some level of divinity carried over from Christ. That would make the central authority of the church part of how they understand god, or their theology, so lacking those things would become part of Protestant theology.
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gampleman 2071 days ago
In the strict sense, that would be called ecclesiology, which would be distinct from theology dealing with the nature of God (which has the distinct sub discipline of christology dealing with the nature of Christ specifically).
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a9h74j 2071 days ago
I attended a Unitarian lecture where the minister gently chided the members, "Yes, we have a theology." The gist was that there were seven or so dimensions to appreciate, including: theology, eschatology, ecclesiology, soteriology, and a few more.

So the word 'theology' != "formal beliefs", whether or not that affects Taleb's brief thesis.

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boomboomsubban 2071 days ago
A quick dictionary definition of "ecclesiology" describes it as

>theological doctrine relating to the church

And the few other things I checked also considered it part of the greater theology.

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