Examples of Tertiary Sources: Dictionaries/encyclopedias (may also be secondary), almanacs, fact books, Wikipedia, bibliographies (may also be secondary), directories, guidebooks, manuals, handbooks, and textbooks (may be secondary), indexing and abstracting sources.

A primary source gives you direct access to the subject of your research. Secondary sources provide second-hand information and commentary from other researchers. Examples include journal articles, reviews, and academic books. A secondary source describes, interprets, or synthesizes primary sources.

Examples of secondary sources:

• Articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers after the event.
• Literature reviews and review articles (e.g., movie reviews, book reviews)
• History books and other popular or scholarly books.
• Works of criticism and interpretation.
• Commentaries and treatises.
• Textbooks.
• Indexes and abstracts.

Tertiary sources are works that are built up from secondary sources, like encyclopedia articles. So for your paper, the Bible might be your primary source, a scholarly paper on flood narratives might be your secondary source, and a pop culture reference might be a modern song about Noah.

The Bible is not primarily scholarly because it is not considered a debatable theory in the way most academic texts are. It is not peer-reviewed and does not have a bibliography, as most academic texts do. To it adherents, it is the word of God.

Biographical works. Reference books, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and atlases. Articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers after the event. History books and other popular or scholarly books.

This method based its teaching on four sources as the basis of theological and doctrinal development. These four sources are scripture, tradition, reason, and Christian experience.

Theology : Systematic Theology / Dogmatics: Sources of Theology

• General.
• Scripture – Authority.
• Scripture – Canonisation.
• Scripture – Clarity.
• Scripture – Inspiration.
• Scripture – Sufficiency.
• Scripture – Trustworthiness.

Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths.

Lists of atheists

• Mikhail Bakunin.
• Jean Baudrillard.
• Albert Camus.
• Richard Dawkins.
• Daniel Dennett.
• Ludwig Feuerbach.
• Sam Harris.
• Christopher Hitchens.

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine; more generally, Religion refers to any cultural system of worship that relates humanity to the supernatural or transcendental. Systematic Theology formulates an orderly and coherent account of the doctrines of faith.

These are:

• Theology proper – The study of the character of God.
• Angelology – The study of angels.
• Biblical theology – The study of the Bible.
• Christology – The study of Christ.
• Ecclesiology – The study of the church.
• Eschatology – The study of the end times.
• Hamartiology – The study of sin.

Dogmatic theology is that part of theology dealing with the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and God’s works, especially the official theology recognized by an organized Church body, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Dutch Reformed Church, etc.

Christian mission history and methodology

Biblical theology is not concerned to state the final doctrines which go to make up the content of Christian belief, but rather to describe the process by which revelation unfolds and moves toward the goal which is God’s final revelation of his purposes in Jesus Christ.

Many students undertake theological study to enquire further into their own faith. They find that the study of Theology can enrich their understanding of the Gospel and open new horizons, even as it follows ancient paths. You do not need to have a faith of your own to find the issues raised by Theology compelling.

The bottom line though is that biblical studies focuses on the Bible as a book. Theological studies is topical. The doctrine of God is one of those “well-ordered categories” and involves arranging all the biblical data – “whole-Bible ideas,” as Daley writes – which describe who God is and what He does.

So you may say that theology and philosophy are essentially the same subjects, but that they represent the same subject looked at from different points of view. Theology is at bottom philosophy looked at from a particular point of view.

It is argued that the distinction between philosophy and theology, in Tillich’s view, is essentially one of definition: philosophy describes the “structure of being” with objectivity and detachment while theology seeks the “meaning of being for us” with existential concern.

Indeed, some philosophers have entered into critical reflection and dialogue on the nature or essence of religion itself. This does not mean that philosophy attempts to disprove religious beliefs. Philosophy has come to reveal that religious beliefs are just that beliefs and not empirical claims.

Philosophical theism is the belief that the Supreme Being exists (or must exist) independent of the teaching or revelation of any particular religion. It represents belief in God entirely without doctrine, except for that which can be discerned by reason and the contemplation of natural laws.