pneumatology
Americannoun
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Theology.
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doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit.
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the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
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the doctrine or theory of spiritual beings.
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Archaic. psychology.
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Obsolete. pneumatics.
noun
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the branch of theology concerned with the Holy Ghost and other spiritual beings
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an obsolete name for psychology
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an obsolete term for pneumatics
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But the examination we have made of their real opinions shows that, however obviously this conclusion might flow from their pneumatology, it was not the expectation they cherished.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Learned pigs don’t believe in pneumatology, nor in astronomy, but in gastronomy.
From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
But neither the physiology, nor the pneumatology had been placed in organic connection with the central cerebral science.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
The ba belongs to a different pneumatology to that just noticed.
From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie
As to the psychic half of the cerebral functions, they omitted entirely that portion which relates to pneumatology.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
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