[ad. med.L. anthrōpopathīa, a. Gr. ἀνθρωποπάθεια, n. of quality from ἀνθρωποπαθής: see above and -Y.] Ascription of human feelings and passions (to the Deity, etc.).
[1578. Timme, Calvin on Gen., 176. He bringeth in God speaking after the manner of men, by a figure called Anthropopathia.]
a. 1647. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 106. Two ways may the Spirit of God be said to be grieved … in Himself by an anthropopathie (as we call it), in his Saints by a sympathie.
1882. Farrar, Early Chr., I. 260. Expressions which spoke of God by what is called anthropopathy—that is, as subject to wrath, repentance, or other human emotions.
