asceticism is seen in the ancient theologies as a journey towards material transformation where the complex is sufficient
theology can also be used in a derived sense to mean a system of theoretical principles an impractical or rigid ideology
in scholastic latin sources the term came to denote the rational study of the doctrines of the christian religion or more precisely the academic discipline which investigated the coherence and implications of the language and claims of the bible and of the theological tradition the latter often as represented in peter lombards sentences a book of extracts from the church fathers