a. [f. Gr. θεόμορφος of divine form (f. θεό-ς god + μόρφη form) + -IC.] Having the form or likeness of God; of or pertaining to theomorphism.
1870. J. H. Blunt, Dict. Theol., 324/2. Although the Creator thus made man theomorphic, we are not to think of God as anthropomorphic.
1889. A. Moore, Christian Doctr. God, in Lux Mundi, 64. A theomorphic view of man is of the essence of his faith.
1894. J. R. Illingworth, Personality Hum. & Div., viii. (1895), 214. Our anthropomorphic language follows from our theomorphic minds.
1897. Ottley, Aspects O. Test., vii. 340. Mosaism recognizes, so to speak, the theomorphic structure of man.
So Theomorphism, the doctrine that man has the form or likeness of God; Theomorphize v., trans. to form in the image of God.
1886. Mivart, in Fortn. Rev., Jan., 63. A natural and innocuous Anthropomorphism of the intellect—which … may be more properly called Theomorphism.
1897. T. Stephens, in Evang. Mag., June, 289. Theomorphism in the doctrine of man has gone on side by side with anthropomorphism in the doctrine of God.
1905. J. Orr, Probl. O. Test., v. 118. God, in creating, theomorphises man.
