theanthropism

theanthropism

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek god + man.

Noun

theanthropism (uncountable)

1. A state of being God and man.
   • 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Rest Fenner […], OCLC 489762501:

     [I]n speaking theologically and impersonally, i. e. of Psilanthropism and Theanthropism as schemes of belief, without reference to individuals, who profess either the one or the other, it will be absurd to use a different language as long as it is the dictate of common sense, that two opposites can not properly be called by the same name.

2. The ascription of human attributes to a deity.
   • 1879, William Ewart Gladstone, The Olympian System Versus the Solar Theory

     Here is a tradition embodying that vital union of the human with the divine , which is expressed in the word theanthropism, or anthropomorphism

References

theanthropism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913