The practice of attributing human emotions and feelings to God or non-human things, treating them as if they experience emotions like we do.
From Greek anthropos (human) + pathos (feeling/emotion) + -ism (practice/belief). Developed in 19th century theological discourse to describe how religions describe divine beings with human-like emotions.
When the Bible says God was 'angry' or 'pleased,' that's anthropopathism at work—we're using human feelings to understand something beyond our direct experience, which is actually how all metaphor works in language.
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