pneumatology

[ noo-muh-tol-uh-jee, nyoo- ]

noun

1. Theology.
   1. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit.
   2. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
2. the doctrine or theory of spiritual beings.
3. Archaic. psychology.
4. Obsolete. pneumatics.

pneumatology

/ ˌnjuːmətəˈlɒdʒɪkəl; ˌnjuːməˈtɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. the branch of theology concerned with the Holy Ghost and other spiritual beings
2. an obsolete name for psychology
3. an obsolete term for pneumatics

Derived Forms

• pneumatological, adjective
• ˌpneumaˈtologist, noun

Other Words From

• pneu·mat·o·log·ic [n, oo, -mat-l-, oj, -ik, ny, oo, -, noo-m, uh, -tl-, nyoo-], pneuma·to·logi·cal adjective
• pneuma·tolo·gist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pneumatology¹

First recorded in 1670–80; pneumato- + -logy

Example Sentences

Pneumatology, or, as it was also called, Rational Psychology, has been already alluded to in the Introduction to the Logic as an abstract and generalising metaphysic of the subject.

From Project Gutenberg

Logic was taught first; ontology came in the second place; pneumatology, comprehending the doctrine concerning the nature of the human soul and of the Deity, in the third; in the fourth followed a debased system of moral philosophy, which was considered as immediately connected with the doctrines of pneumatology, with the immortality of the human soul, and with the rewards and punishments which, from the justice of the Deity, were to be expected in a life to come: a short and superficial system of physics usually concluded the course.

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Bush on Pneumatology, 309.—Satire on the Rappers, by J.R.

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It is no more necessary in reading the Odyssey to go into the myth of the divinities concerned, than it would be in teaching Hamlet to make an exhaustive excursus into the pneumatology of the Ghost.

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Learned pigs don’t believe in pneumatology, nor in astronomy, but in gastronomy. 

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