theomania

[Gr. theomania = madne caused by a god.] Mental Path.: A term introduced by Esquirol for a disorder in which the sufferer imagines himself to be the Deity, or that the Deity dwells in and speaks through him; used more widely to embrace religious exaltation and religious melancholy. "An eye witne of the Irish Revivals speaks of theo mania."- Bucknill & Tuke: Psychol. Med., p. 238. Thê-ô-păs-chite, subst . [Gr. theos = God, and paschō-to suffer.] Church Hist . (pl.): A name given to the Monophysite followers of Peter the Fuller, Bishop of Antioch, who toward the close of the fifth century, added the clause "Who wast crucified for us" to the Trisagion (q. v.). "He undoubtedly made this addition with sectarian views, intending to establish men more firmly in his favorite doctrine, that of but one nature in Christ. But his adversaries, especially Felix of Rome and others, perverted his meaning, and maintained that he intended to teach that all the three Persons in the Godhead were crucified, and therefore such as approved this form of the hymn were called Theopaschites ."-Mosheim: Church Hist . (ed. Reid), p. 206. the-o-pa-thet-Ic, a . [Formed from theopathy , on the analogy of sympathetic , from sympathy .] Relating or pertaining to theopathy (q. v.).