Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ascription of human passions to supernatural beings, especially to the Supreme Being. Also called
anthropopathy . - noun An expression containing or implying such ascription.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
anthropopathy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Moreover, when hate is attributed to God in scriptural translations, it is most likely an anthropopathism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Common Thread Among America, Canada, Sweden, Gays, and Now Jews 2009
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In opposition to the anthropopathism of the Jewish Scriptures, the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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The other basic hermeneutical aspect that he fails to understand is anthropomorphism and anthropopathism, whereby God represents Himself as having human emotions or various physical characteristics by analogy, so He could be understood.
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Discussion) Some fundamentalist Protestants, "traditionalist" Catholics, and, as they call themselves (two theologically liberal schools of thought today: the latter even infiltrating evangelical Protestantism) deny these ancient orthodox doctrines on God's nature, and deny that Scripture (in other words, God, Who inspired Scripture) utilizes the literary or teaching device of anthropopathism as a means to teach men about the nature and ways of an almost incomprehensible and extraordinary God.
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