Ibn TAºmart emphasised the Unity of God; in other words, he denounced the anthropomorphic ideas which prevailed in Western Islam and strove to replace them by a purely spiritual conception of the Deity.
Man never knows how anthropomorphic he is,” says Goethe.
Catherine leaves the last two, anthropomorphic and familial, conceptions quite unused, and passes in her life, at one bound, from the first to the third mode.
Fatal to every deity not anthropomorphicwas the long pessimistic phase of human faith.
The forms of the serpents thus portrayed with anthropomorphic legs and slight wings are, in their main shapes, of ordinary species.
The anthropomorphic genii called the Patrii, who were supposed to preside over provinces, were generally represented bearing weapons with which they defended the regions of which they were patrons.
No amount of casuistry can explain its co-existence with anthropomorphic Love and Wisdom, as all acknowledge when a parallel casuistry attempts to defend any other god than their own from deeds that are, humanly considered, evil.
The personification is more developed under the name of Vayu, who is mostly associated with Indra, while Vata is coupled only with the less anthropomorphic rain-god, Parjanya.
Handed down from a bygone age, Indra has become more anthropomorphicand surrounded by mythological imagery than any other Vedic god.
And he repels with indignation the anthropomorphic representations of the Deity.
He had a profound and earnest conviction of the existence of a God, and he ridiculed with sarcastic force, the anthropomorphic absurdities of the popular religion.
But he was opposed to all anthropomorphic conceptions of the Deity.
Perhaps this capacity of Southern scenery to bear a mortal interpretation accounts for the anthropomorphic deities of classical days.
To debate whether one be better for mankind than the other betrays what I call an anthropomorphic turn of mind; it is therefore a problem which, so far as I am concerned, does not exist.
It came as the result of a long historic groping for the truth, and when it came it brought with it olden anthropomorphic wrappings and tribal adornments which were not easily to be discarded, if they ever were entirely discarded.
He appears to have been originally a god of thunder, a phenomenon which lends itself to anthropomorphic treatment.
The descriptions of his appearance are not really anthropomorphicbut metaphorical imagery depicting shining, streaming flames.
As determined by the Homeric poems, the religion of Greece was a highly developed polytheism of a thoroughly anthropomorphic kind.
But however stimulating to the sense of beauty, the anthropomorphic religion of Greece was singularly unsatisfying in the moral sphere.
Israel's sages required centuries of effort to remove all anthropomorphic and anthropopathic notions of God, and thus to elevate Him to the highest realm of spirituality.
The assumption of all these intermediaries aimed chiefly to spiritualize the conception of God and to elevate Him above all child-like, anthropomorphic views, so that He becomes a free Mind ruling the whole universe.
All these anthropomorphic pictures of God were later avoided by the ancient Biblical translators by means of paraphrase, and by the philosophers by means of allegory.
The mystics accepted literally the anthropomorphic pictures of the Deity in the Bible, and did not care how much they might affect the spirituality and unity of God.
For example, in the Greek translation of the Scriptures all anthropomorphicexpressions are avoided.
When we study piacular rites in the more advanced religions, where the religious forces are individualized, they appear to be closely bound up with anthropomorphic conceptions.
That the anthropomorphic instinct, with which the animists have endowed primitive men, cannot explain their mental condition is shown by the nature of the confusions of which they are guilty.
This is the case with Jevons, who criticizes the animism taught by Tylor, but accepts his theories on the origin of the idea of the soul and the anthropomorphic instinct of man.
The anthropomorphic conception of God, our Martian finds, is now denied by most cultured theists; nevertheless, they still maintain a belief in a deity endowed with consciousness.
He found a threefold classification: (1) Those who held to the belief in an anthropomorphic personal God who was benevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent.
Contemporary science, especially astrophysics, renders the whole set of assumptions underlying the anthropomorphic and geocentric supernaturalism of the past absolutely archaic and preposterous.
But such features may be due to survivals incidental to the highest form of nature religion, namely, anthropomorphic polytheism.
Like most orthodox followers of Mitra, she had an intuitive horror of the followers and cult of Asura, instilled in her infancy and childhood by wild tales of human sacrifice and anthropomorphic gods shambling through shadowy temples.
He saw it more plainly now; the gray light limned a giant anthropomorphic body, but vaster of bulk and girth than any man.
This may tend to throw some light upon what are called anthropomorphic ideas of God.
In truth, this would-be scientific mode of speech is as anthropomorphic as is the cosmogony of Hesiod, only on a smaller scale.
When the naturalists say that the notion of cause is a fetish, an anthropomorphic superstition which we must eliminate, we have to answer: 'from the realm of empirical science perhaps, but not from experience as a whole.
His clear mind and his Spanish education would not permit Nachmani to follow the rabbis of northern France through thick and thin, nor to accept the Agadas in their literal sense, with all their anthropomorphic and offensive utterances.
The Moslem believe, as he affirmed, in the unity and eternity of God, and in the creatio ex nihilo; but reject anthropomorphic conceptions.
The Kabbala is a daughter of embarrassment; its system was the way of escape from the dilemma between the simple, anthropomorphic interpretation of the Bible and the shallowness of the Maimunist philosophy.
These cases show a confusion between the anthropomorphic and the theriomorphic conception of the corn-spirit.
The reader has probably remarked the complete parallelism between the anthropomorphic and the theriomorphic conceptions of the corn-spirit.
This indicates a confusion between the conceptions of the corn-spirit as theriomorphic (in animal form) and as anthropomorphic (in human form).
In these latter customs the confusion between the anthropomorphic and theriomorphic conception of the corn-spirit meets us again.
But this only shows that he was in the usual chrysalis state through which beast-gods regularly pass before they emerge as full-fledged anthropomorphic gods.
The story is obviously a forced and awkward attempt to bridge over the gulf between the old conception of the corn-spirit as a pig and the new conception of her as an anthropomorphic goddess.
Here, again, we are met with that confusion between the anthropomorphic and theriomorphic conception of the corn-spirit, which has been already signalised.
But it does not suggest the existence of a highly anthropomorphic conception of the gods.
Such ideas can only be explained by a vivid anthropomorphic conception of the deities.
Thus the illuminated mind knows in the Father, not a confusingly anthropomorphic metaphor, but the uniquely vital Source and unconditioned Origin of all things "in whom our life and being is begun.
It does credit to their metaphysics, but, prima facie, seems likely to be later in evolution than the idea of an anthropomorphic Maker, like the Australian Baiame.
Surrounding the picture on about three-fourths of its circumference is the anthropomorphic rainbow or rainbow deity.
The rainbow which incloses the picture on three sides is not the anthropomorphic rainbow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthropomorphic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anthropoid; humanoid; pantheistic; religious; theistic
