Meaning of theopathy | Babel Free

Definitions

The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief

uncountable, usually

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level