Talk:anthropism

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anthropism

"The belief that human beings have a spiritual nature beyond the physical body characterized by in-dwelling Divinity." I can see the word in Google Books but it seems to mean something like a human-centred view (anthropocentrism). Equinox ◑ 10:09, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I found a few quotes:

• 1866, John Quarry, Genesis and Its Authorship: Two Disserations, page 108:

  Such a representation would present a real difficulty, if we were obliged to understand all this in its strict literal import, implying, as it would, very unworthy conceptions of God on the part of the writer. The difficulty vanishes, however, when it is perceived that this is only and instance of a prevailing anthropism which charaterises the whole narrative.

• 1992, David Kolb, New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, →ISBN, page 67:

  Homeric, and to an extent Hesiodic, myth amounts to "perfected anthropism," depicting the divine-made-human

• 2014, G. V. Loewen, Place Meant: Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self, →ISBN, page 172:

  In transitioning from anywhere to everywhere, we must reinvent the means of reading the world as containing both an autograph—though we do not presume to attach it either to a divinity or to an anthropism—and an hermeneutic.

Although I have some doubts about the 2014 quote. Kiwima (talk) 17:49, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I found another one:

• 1979, John Carew Eccles, The Human Mystery: The GIFFORD Lectures., →ISBN, page 2:

  I have seen the question asked "why should mind have a body?" the answer may well run "to mediate between it and other mind". It might be objected that such a view is undiluted 'anthropism.' To that we might reply, anthropism seems the present aim of the planet though presumably not its enduring aim.

Kiwima (talk) 18:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC)