Why this word is great
THEOLOGASTER — [Noun] A poor theologian; someone who merely pretends to be a theologian. From Latin theologus ("theologian") + -aster (pejorative suffix denoting inferiority or pretension). Unlike "theologian" (a scholar who wrestles earnestly with divine mysteries) or "philosophaster" (a dabbler in shallow wisdom), the theologaster is a creature of borrowed robes and unexamined dogma. He is the sermonizer who mistakes volume for virtue, the pamphleteer who substitutes zeal for study, the pulpit-pounder whose certainty grows in inverse proportion to his understanding—a reminder that the loudest voices often belong to those who have heard the least.
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- A poor theologian; someone who merely pretends to be a theologian.“But why should the sun and moon be angry, or take exceptions at mathematicians and philosophers, whenas the like measure is offered unto God Himself, by a company of theologasters?”