Quid Sit: What is Anthropomorphism and Agnosticism In Danielou’s chapter 2, The God of the Philosophers, two terms ,anthropomorphism and agnosticism, are brought to the reader’s attention midway through the chapter regarding God’s personality. Anthropomorphism is when human characteristics are given to God, and agnosticism is opposite of agnosticism because it means that God is either unknown or unknowable. “Le Roy puts the antinomy as follows: Either we shall define the word personality and so it fall into the pit of anthropomorphism, or we shall leave it undefined and fall into the no less terrible pit of agnosticism.” (Danielou, 62). Both terms, anthropomorphism and agnosticism, offer supportive evidence that each is correct. Anthropomorphism is an idealistic philosophy because we are mentally applying personality characteristics to God. “It is abundantly clear
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“But that is an undue mutilation of metaphysics, whose aim is to know beings in all that they require for existence, that it, at the same time in their nature and in their substance.” (Danielou, 61). God is a being, and Christians know God. Christians give God a personality because they feel like they personally know him. “If in fact, human reason did not already know divine personality before the revelation, it could nevertheless arrive at it by its own resources, it already knew it implicitly. (Daneilou, 62). Personality would not have been known if God did not have a personality. By God having a personality, it allowed him to bestow it on mankind. Danlielou states, “It is for this reason that God deserves, to an infinite degree, that respect which we owe to a person as such- and which, in his case is adoration.” (66). Overall, God is responsible for giving mankind the ability to recognize and possess personalities because without them we would all be the
“But that is an undue mutilation of metaphysics, whose aim is to know beings in all that they require for existence, that it, at the same time in their nature and in their substance.” (Danielou, 61). God is a being, and Christians know God. Christians give God a personality because they feel like they personally know him. “If in fact, human reason did not already know divine personality before the revelation, it could nevertheless arrive at it by its own resources, it already knew it implicitly. (Daneilou, 62). Personality would not have been known if God did not have a personality. By God having a personality, it allowed him to bestow it on mankind. Danlielou states, “It is for this reason that God deserves, to an infinite degree, that respect which we owe to a person as such- and which, in his case is adoration.” (66). Overall, God is responsible for giving mankind the ability to recognize and possess personalities because without them we would all be the