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′nthropos.
Hence Theanthropophagy [-PHAGY]: see quot.; Theanthroposophy [-SOPHY], a system of belief concerning the God-man; Theanthropy [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.
