Your Theology check measures your ability to recall lore about deities, rites and prayers, religious hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults.
Recall Information
You can use the Theology skill to recall information about divine magic, gods and goddesses, mythic history, ecclesiastic tradition, holy symbols, undead, and the planes of existence and their inhabitants. This functions as the Recall Information ability of the Academics skill but only covers this specialized field of study.
Identify Creatures
This functions as the Identify Creatures ability of the Academics skill but only covers this specialized field of study. Theology can identify aberrations, undead, and outsiders.
Identify Spell Effects
A successful Theology check can allow you to identify a divine spell or effect. The base difficulty class to identify any spell or effect is 20 + the spell’s level. Apply the modifiers as given on the Identify Spell Effects table of the Arcane Lore skill to determine the final DC.
Theology can also identify arcane spells, psionic powers, and other esoterica, but attempting to do so increases the DC by +10.
Use Magic Item
This functions as the Use Magic Item ability of the Arcane Lore skill but functions with divine spells. Theology cannot be used to activate scrolls or wands that don’t contain divine spells.