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theanthropism|θiːˈænθrəpɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
1. Theol. The doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, or of the manifestation of God as man, in Christ.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. xxiv. (1882) 301 Speaking theologically and impersonally, i.e. of Psilanthropism and Theanthropism as schemes of belief. 1867Westcott in Contemp. Rev. VI. 417 If we might venture to use a word not wholly without ancient precedent, it [Christianity] might be described as Theanthropism. It proclaims not a conception of God, but a manifestation of God. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (ed. 2) 119 The monotheism of the Old Testament is supplemented by the theanthropism of the New.
2. Mythol. The attribution of human nature or character to the gods.
Cf. anthropophuism, which word Mr. Gladstone, writing to the Editor in July 1883, said he had given up and had ‘taken refuge in theanthropism’.
1878Gladstone Prim. Homer iii. 50 Greatly out of keeping with the anthropomorphism, or, as I would rather call it, theanthropism, of the Olympian system.
So theˈanthropist, a believer in theanthropism (also attrib. or as adj.); theanthroˈpology = theanthropism.
1816Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 394 This is evident, that if the *theanthropist is a Christian, the psilanthropist cannot be so. 1887Dublin Rev. Apr. 248 The theanthropist or Christian doctrine.
1845F. Barham A 9 *Theanthropology, or the doctrine of God in man and the form of man. |