Western theology usually considers sin not only as a sickness that weakens and impedes, but also as something that merits punishment.
However, this theme was only developed later in Western theology and art.
Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."
Western theology has long been influenced by a creeping Arianism - the idea that Jesus was not of the same substance as God.
Hoyle explicitly warned that the Big Bang was being promoted as a first cause dogma in line with Western theology rather than science.
It's a familiar Hollywood moral that also happens to be one of the cornerstones of Western theology: the doctrine of free will.
This also means that the theology in Africa was strongly influenced by Western theology.
He wrote a dissertation on the different forms of Liberation Theology and their relation to academic Western theology (1990).
Western theology considers these demons to have been temptations.
In Western Christian theology, the day commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven.