‖ Theˈanthropos Obs.
[a. eccl. Gr. θεάνθρωπος god-man, f. θεός God + ἄνθρωπος man.]
A title given to Jesus Christ as being both God and man.
| 1635 Quarles Emblems i. Invoc. 33 Thou great Theanthropos, that giv'st and crown'st Thy gifts in dust. a 1704 T. Brown Dial. Dead, Friendship Wks. 1711 IV. 54 When this great Deliverer came, they [the Jews] very fairly Murder'd him; and from this Theantropos it is that the Christians derive..their Religion. 1730 Bailey (folio), Thea{p}nthropos. |
Hence
theanthropophagy (
-ˈɒfədʒɪ) [-phagy]: see
quot.;
theanthroposophy (
-ˈɒsəfɪ) [-sophy], a system of belief concerning the God-man;
theanthropy (
-ˈænθrəpɪ) [
ad. eccl.
Gr. θεανθρωπία], the fact of being God-man, the union of divine and human natures (in Christ).
| 1654 Jer. Taylor Real Pres. xii. §14. 281 Cardinal Perron..says, that they deny anthropophagy, but did not deny *Theanthropophagy, saying, that they did not eat the flesh, or drink the bloud of a meer man, but of Christ who was God and man. |
| 1817 Coleridge Lett., to J. H. Green (1895) 683 Of Schelling's Theology and *Theanthroposophy, the telescopic stars and nebulæ are too many for my ‘grasp of eye’. |
| 1658 J. Robinson Endoxa i. 19 Christ..by his *Theanthropy..knew Judas to be one [a hypocrite]. 1689 Norris Refl., etc. (1691) 198 Here also we meet with a new Theanthropy, a strange Composition of God and Man. |