The attribution of human emotions, feelings, or passions to non-human things, particularly to God or divine beings in theological contexts.
From 'anthropo-' (human) + 'pathia' (feeling/emotion, from Greek pathos). A theological term used since medieval times to describe how humans project their emotions onto the divine.
Medieval theologians debated anthropopathia—if God is perfect and unchanging, can God really feel 'anger' or 'love'? This question reveals how much we struggle to imagine anything fundamentally unlike ourselves!
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