theopathy

[4] surely it is a fine one. a soul of quick feelings & ardent passions absorbed in theopathy. an infatuation — I may say a drunkenness of devotion — which we must love.

Letter 267 1797

The various emotional states (“pleasures and pains”) we experience structure themselves into “six classes”: imagination, ambition, self-interest, sympathy, theopathy, and the moral sense.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

For the person for whom sympathy and theopathy are primary pursuits, imagination and ambition remain modes of interaction, but modes that are transformed.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

The second group combines sympathy, the orientation of personal intersubjectivity, and theopathy, the person's relationship with the divine.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

Sympathy and theopathy replace imagination and ambition as “primary pursuits,” the fundamental modes of experience and interaction.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

In some, these modes are pathological, and theopathy is often only rudimentarily developed.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

Hartley's model of the self in terms of imagination, ambition, and self-interest, and then of sympathy, theopathy, and the moral sense, is dynamically complex.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

This “annihilation” is not quasi-mystical obliteration; rather, it is a reorientation toward, or discovery of, a higher self of sympathy, theopathy, and the moral sense.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

Rate It this kind of hateful religious extremism is a symptom of the theopathy endemic in the USA

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Adoption Agency Rejects Catholic Parents; 2005

Sénancourt had found his way through a vague theopathy to autumnal brightness, late-born hope, and tranquil reconcilement with existence.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878