theopathy
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Etymology edit
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theopathy (usually uncountable, plural theopathies)
- The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] [1], London: Longmans, Green & Co.:
- Here language itself reflects the feeling that the divine pathos, the passion of the "pathetic God" who "yearned" to be known, presupposes as its correlate a theopathy in the human being whose God He is.
- 2004, Andrew Brown (tr.), The Ark of Speech, Routledge, translation of L'arche de la parole by Jean-Louis Chrétien:
- A new characteristic can be added to the description of prayer: the manifestation of self to other through speech, an agonistic speech struggling for its truth, is an ordeal, an undergoing of God, a suffering of God, a theopathy.