Biblical Anthropomorphism
excerpts from E. L. Cherbonnier, “The Logic of Biblical Anthropomorphism,” in Harvard Theological Review IV (1962): 187-206. 187: “By anthropomorphism I mean any theology that conceives of God in terms of those characteristics which are distinctly human ….” “The prophets do not charge the pagan deities with being anthropomorphic, but with being insufficiently anthropomorphic. At …