theopathy
theopathy noun: the capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief.
Noun
theopathy (usually uncountable, plural theopathies)
- The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief
- 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.1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
- 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.2004, Andrew Brown (tr.), The Ark of Speech, Routledge, translation of L'arche de la parole by Jean-Louis Chrétien
theopathy meaning in Tamil
theopathy in Tamil
- கடவுள் ஆவேசம்
Forms of theopathy
| plural | theopathies |
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Origin of theopathy
From theo- + -pathy.
Questions about theopathy
- What does theopathy mean?
- Theopathy means the capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief.
- What is theopathy in Tamil?
- Theopathy in Tamil is கடவுள் ஆவேசம். See Theopathy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is theopathy?
- Theopathy is a noun.
- What is the plural of theopathy?
- The plural of theopathy is theopathies.
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