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Theology of the Body

Theology of the Body, also called Catholic Theology of the Body, is Pope John Paul II's teaching on marriage, sexuality, and the human person, given in 129 audiences from 1979 to 1984.

Theon Greyjoy

Theon Greyjoy is a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Alfie Allen; heir to Balon Greyjoy, Eddard Stark's ward, tortured into "Reek" by Ramsay Bolton.

Théoneste Bagosora

Théoneste Bagosora, born 1941, was a Rwandan army colonel who took control of military affairs in April 1994 and was convicted of genocide by the ICTR.

Theonomy

Theonomy, from Greek for God's law, is a Christian view that Old Testament judicial laws remain binding on nations, popularized by R.J. Rushdoony and Greg Bahnsen in the 1970s.

Theopanes I

Theopanes I (Θεοφάνης Α´), also spelled Theophanes I and born in Athens, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1597, dying suddenly in the church weeks after his election.

Theophan the Recluse (Феофан Затворник)

Theophan the Recluse (Феофан Затворник), born Georgy Govorov, was a Russian Orthodox bishop who spent 28 years as a recluse translating the Philokalia into Russian.

Theophanes the Confessor

Theophanes the Confessor (Θεοφάνης), c. 752/758 to 817/818, was a Byzantine monk and abbot who completed the Chronographia, a universal history covering 284 to 813.

Theophanes the Cretan

Theophanes the Cretan (Theophanis Strelitzas) was a Greek monk and Cretan School painter, born in Heraklion, whose frescoes at Meteora and Mount Athos shaped post-Byzantine painting.

Theophanes the Greek

Theophanes the Greek (Феофан Грек) was a Byzantine-born painter of frescoes, icons, and manuscripts who worked in Novgorod and Moscow until after 1405, frescoing Novgorod's Church of the Transfiguration in 1378.

Theophanu (Θεοφανώ)

Theophanu (Θεοφανώ, also Theophano), Byzantine noblewoman and niece of John Tzimiskes, married Otto II in Rome on 14 April 972, was crowned Western empress, and regented for Otto III from 983 to her death in 991.

Theophany

A theophany is a manifestation of a god to a human being, the sensible sign by which divine presence is revealed. The word comes from Greek and first appears in Herodotus.

Theophil Mitchell Prudden

Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849–1924) was an American pathologist and bacteriologist, first professor of pathology at Columbia's medical college, who co-wrote a standard pathology handbook and helped found the Rockefeller Institute.

Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier (Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier; 1811–1872) was a French poet, novelist, and leading art critic known for art for art's sake, Mademoiselle de Maupin, and Émaux et Camées.

Théophile Naël

Théophile Naël, French racing driver born 2007 in Saint-Étienne; 2023 Spanish F4 champion, 2025 Macau Grand Prix winner with KCMG, and FIA Formula 3 driver with Van Amersfoort (2025) and Campos Racing (2026, 3 wins).

Théophile Raynaud

Théophile Raynaud (1583–1663) was a French Jesuit theologian who wrote about 90 works on nearly every field of theology and was celebrated in Europe as a new Bellarmine.

Theophilus (lunar crater)

Theophilus is a ~100 km complex lunar impact crater at 11.4S, 26.4E on the northwest edge of Mare Nectaris, overlapping Cyrillus, with terraced walls, a 1.4 km central peak, Mg-spinel lithologies, and an Eratosthenian age near 2 Ga.

Theophilus (Θεόφιλος) (biblical)

Theophilus (Θεόφιλος) is the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed; nothing else is known of him.

Theophilus Albert Marryshow

Theophilus Albert Marryshow (1887–1958) was a Grenadian journalist and politician, known as the "Father of Federation", who campaigned for representative government and West Indian union.

Theophilus of Alexandria

Theophilus of Alexandria was the twenty-third patriarch of Alexandria, serving from 385 to 412, known for the destruction of the Serapeum and the deposition of John Chrysostom.

Theophilus Painter

Theophilus Painter (1889–1969) was an American zoologist and geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin who established that mammals, including humans, have X- and Y-chromosomes determining sex.

Theophilus the Indian

Theophilus the Indian, also called the Ethiopian, was a fourth-century Arian bishop and diplomat sent by Constantius II to Ḥimyar and Aksum, where his mission failed.

Theophory in the Bible

Theophoric names in the Bible embed a divine element, El or abbreviated YHWH forms (Yeho-, Yo-, -yahu, -yah), in personal names like Yehonatan, Yeshayahu, Daniel, and Israel; about 91% of biblical theophoric names are Yahwistic, with distinct Judean and Israelite epigraphic patterns.

Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος)

Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος), c. 371–287 BCE, Aristotle's colleague and successor at the Lyceum; founder of systematic botany via Enquiry into Plants and Plant Explanations, author of The Characters, and logician who introduced prosleptic syllogisms.

Theophylact of Ohrid

Theophylact of Ohrid (Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ὀχρίδος) was a Byzantine biblical commentator and letter-writer who served as Greek archbishop of Ohrid, head of the church of Byzantine-ruled Bulgaria.

Theophylaktos

Theophylaktos, also known as Theophylact Lekapenos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 933 to 956, a son of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos who baptized Olga of Kiev in 946.

Theophylline

Theophylline (1,3-dimethylxanthine), a methylxanthine bronchodilator related to caffeine, treats asthma and COPD; narrow 5-20 mcg/mL therapeutic window, PDE inhibition and HDAC-mediated anti-inflammatory action, now alternative therapy.

Theopolis

Theopolis ("City of God") names a 5th-century fortified Christian foundation of the ex-prefect Dardanus near Saint-Geniez, Provence, known only from the Pierre Écrite inscription, and Justinian I's renamed Antioch.

Theor appl genet

Theor Appl Genet (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Theoretische und angewandte Genetik) is a Springer peer-reviewed journal of plant genetics, genomics, and biotechnology; founded 1929 as Der Züchter, renamed 1968, ISSN 0040-5752, hybrid open access, Q1 in plant sciences.

Theorem

A theorem is a statement in mathematics or logic proved from axioms by valid inference, in contrast with an unproved conjecture or an accepted axiom.

Theorem of the highest weight

The theorem of the highest weight, or theorem on highest weights, is a classification theorem in representation theory that classifies finite-dimensional irreducible representations of a semisimple Lie algebra by dominant integral weights.