Anthropomorphism is an inevitable result of the laws of thought.
Evidently, though much refined, the anthropomorphism of the current hypothesis is inherited from the aboriginal anthropomorphism, which described gods as a stronger order of men.
The anthropomorphism is certainly veiled when the feminine being is excluded, but only veiled--not removed.
If thy predicates are anthropomorphisms, the subject of them is an anthropomorphism too.
But on the other hand, it is no less true that the total elimination of anthropomorphism from the idea of God abolishes the idea itself.
In the succeeding chapters, however, it is expressly argued that the total elimination ofanthropomorphism from the idea of God is impossible.
The utter demolition of anthropomorphismwould be the demolition of theism.
We have now come to a passage, which gives us the opportunity of testing this connection, which we have alleged between the so-called anthropomorphism of the Old Testament, and the Incarnation, which is the glory of the New.
Otherwise the way of Immanent Idealism leads to an anthropomorphism of a more refined kind; and there is a danger that the whole world which this system champions may be criticised hostilely and rejected as simply human.
The anti-anthropomorphism is further to be made out from the lines ascribed to Æschylus by Justin Martyr (De Monarchia, c.
Swedenborg, in modern times, represents the view that God exists in the shape of a man--an anthropomorphism of which the making of idols is only a grosser and more barbarous form; see H.
Xenophanes plainly asserted that the Greek anthropomorphism was no better than a worship of humanity with all its vices, illustrating his critique by adding that just in the same way might lions adore lions and horses horses.
Curiously enough, the charge of Anthropomorphism has been brought by a most eminent naturalist against the greatest authorities on Natural Selection.
And with the universal anthropomorphism "Shang-te is the great father of gods and men: Shang-te is a gigantic man.
In its solar husband and lunar wife it embraces that anthropomorphism and sexuality which we think have been and still are the principal factors in the production of legendary and religious impersonations.
Anthropomorphism was but a species of personification, which also metamorphosed the firmament into a menagerie of lions and bears, with a variety of birds, beasts, and fishes.
Under this latter form, completed by a very simple anthropomorphism which applies to the gods the law of the sexes, the religions of nature weighed during long ages upon Western Asia.
The anthropomorphismof Semitic Babylonia is reflected in the anthropomorphism of the Israelites.
Behind the lineaments of Hebrew anthropomorphism ghost or goblin are not to be found.
All these ideas, which are concomitants of the concept of progress, are childish anthropomorphism when applied to the universe.
With the anthropomorphism peculiar to the earliest stages of thought, man personified the mysterious powers which ruled his fate.
The farther we go back in history the more obviously true is the charge of anthropomorphism so commonly brought against religion.
With the disappearance of anthropomorphism in this sense, as Professor Fiske rightly sees[72], religion disappears.
But we cannot escape anthropomorphism, though our anthropomorphism may be crude or critical[73].
The counter-charges of superstition and anthropomorphism on the one side, and of pantheism and rationalism on the other, serve to bring out the antithesis of the two views.
To Xenophanes, indeed, the unity of God is even more essential than His morality, and the attack on anthropomorphism is as much an attack upon the number of the gods of Hesiod as upon the immoral character attributed to them.
As anthropomorphism connects itself with the nature-god only at a later period, so does his worship as war god and national god.
This likeness of the supernatural to the natural, of gods to man, is the first advance from fetichism, but as the intellect advances anthropomorphism declines.
It is the anthropomorphism of the age that fixes on the one-sided conclusion.
The forces at work in the external world are conceived in a less animistic manner, although anthropomorphismstill prevails, at least to the degree required in order to give a dramatic interpretation of the sequence of phenomena.
What stands in the way of its acceptance is the irrepressible anthropomorphism of the physicists.
But thisanthropomorphism concerns the various manifestations of the wakanda.
Miss Fletcher, while recognizing no less clearly the impersonal character of the wakanda, adds nevertheless that a certain anthropomorphism has attached to this conception.
On the contrary, the Bible emphasizes the doctrine of anthropomorphism by declaring in its very first chapter that man was created in the image of God: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.
In all this one may see only too plainly the effort to harmonize Jewish theology with Greek philosophy--an effort to be rid of the plain anthropomorphism of the Hebrew scriptures for the incomprehensible "being" of Greek metaphysics.
Of Anthropomorphism and understanding the Bible Literally.
It is also, in the stronganthropomorphism of the narrative, a remembrancer to God.
Perhaps the most important conception which the works of Empedocles reveal to us is the denial of anthropomorphism as applied to deity.
He was very wise in adopting the strong anthropomorphism of the Hebrew Scriptures at once.
We must be very careful in using anthropomorphism as a term of reproach.
Compare, in reference {172} to this whole question, also the clear analyses in the second volume of the work of Wigand, and the instructive lecture of the Duke of Argyll upon anthropomorphism in theology.
It may be used as a reproach in warning against careless reasoning and hasty comparison, but the idea of anthropomorphism is so extensible that it can be extended over all human reasoning and conception.
Even the works of Darwin which, according to the opinion of these opponents of anthropomorphism, destroy anthropomorphismand teleology, are the most striking proof in favor of it.
Are not the reasons on account of which the so-called anthropomorphism is to be rejected, often {171} enough just as anthropomorphistic as the ideas which are attacked?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthropomorphism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anthropomorphism; dualism; monotheism; pantheism; polytheism; theism
