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Anthropopathy

Anthropopathy (Greek ανθρωπος, anthropos, "human", παθος, pathos, "suffering") is the attribution of human emotion to a non-human being, generally a god.

See also:

Anthropomorphism
God
Nature of God
Philo's view of God

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