@curiousdannii That was my sense from looking at the questions using that tag, not from how scholars use it
From the use of the tag it would actually be more accurate to describe it as "the truth about everything according to the Bible" but that would be a silly definition
@curiousdannii Maybe it would be better to split it into "theology" and "biblical-theology." I think there is only one (?) question that explicitly interacts with the definition you gave, and most questions misuse the tag even for "theology" in my opinion
Defining Theologies
This is initially based off a number of theologies, Christian (Protestant), that will not be listed as the wording is not from any particular one. Ultimately, through editing, will be our own. It also clarifies which theologies are not on topic.
Theology Proper: Study of Go...
we shouldn't hesitate to strip misused tags off questions — like if they don't intersect with any use of the term
@PaulVargas wow the BibleWorks page quotes 1 Pet. 1:24-25. I wonder if the irony is intentional.
@curiousdannii it must be blacklisted or it would be all over the site. I just went through and removed biblical-theology from a bunch more questions but it seems mostly ok to me on the others
@ba "If the tag were to encompass theology in general" a tag that encompassed theology in general would be to broad to be useful on bh.se I think
so my logic for those two was simply that there was no "Biblical Theology" angle in either question by any definition of Biblical Theology that I'm aware of — I'm personally quite happy for the tag to be overloaded with multiple definitions and all to be legitimate, but the usages must demonstrably exist in the wider world in some form.
@ba "attributes of God" is a specific theological topic and having the tag makes that question more searchable in a way that a "theology" tag wouldn't.
The BT I'm familiar with (ie, the one taught by Australian colleges) seems like a mix of 2 and 3, and a bit of 4 and 5.
Type 1 actually seems like the default for this site: how did people back then think and believe?
I don't think any of the four questions @ba just linked to match any of the five types of BT in that article
Not to say that there couldn't be a sixth type I'm not aware of, but Zondervan's comparison series are good at actually covering all the positions usually