theomorphic

comparative more theomorphic · superlative most theomorphic

1. Having the form of God or a god.

   Man is a theomorphic being; endowed with the intelligence (al-'aql) which can lead him to the truth, to knowledge of Allah and to unity (tawhid).

   2007, Roy Jackson, Nietzsche and Islam, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 21

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   That Jesus is male furthers the difficulties already encountered in relation to god the Father, seemingly identifying men as not only more theomorphic (that is, like God) than women, but also as significantly more Christomorphic (that is, like Christ).

   2009, Hannah Bacon, What's Right with the Trinity?: Conversations in Feminist Theology, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), published 2016, page 20

   Correspondingly, the first male, Adam, is defined as Godlike human prototype, whereas the first female, Eve, is derived and therefore not theomorphic.

   2012, Kari Elisabeth Børresen, “Julian of Norwich: A Model of Feminist Theology”, in Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Kari Vogt, editors, Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Foremothers, page 295

2. Of, pertaining to or involving the conception of man as having the form of God or a god.

   In this paper I will offer some reflections on interpretations of theomorphic themes in Islamic thought.

   2012, Mona Siddiqui, “11: Perspectives on Theomorphism in Islam”, in Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller, Antje Jackelen, Taede Smedes, editors, Is Religion Natural?, page 171

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   It seems that the more remote from scientific realization is the idea that the philosopher is searching to grasp, the more theomorphic the explanation will tend to be.

   2002, Claudio Ferreira Costa, The Philosophical Inquiry: Towards a Global Account, page 76

   2015, Mikhail Epstein, Post-Atheism: From Apophatic Theology to "Minimal Religion", Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture, page 453, In the theomorphic representation there is no trace of God, but the locus and form of his absence are precisely indicated as the “highest or most powerful value,” even if this value is a negative one.