"theomorphic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Roy Jackson, Nietzsche and Islam, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 21:",
          "text": "Man is a theomorphic being; endowed with the intelligence (al-'aql) which can lead him to the truth, to knowledge of Allah and to unity (tawhid).",
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          "ref": "2009, Hannah Bacon, What's Right with the Trinity?: Conversations in Feminist Theology, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), published 2016, page 20:",
          "text": "That Jesus is male furthers the difficulties already encountered in relation to god the Father, seemingly identifying men as not only more theomorphic (that is, like God) than women, but also as significantly more Christomorphic (that is, like Christ).",
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          "ref": "2012, Kari Elisabeth Børresen, “Julian of Norwich: A Model of Feminist Theology”, in Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Kari Vogt, editors, Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Foremothers, page 295:",
          "text": "Correspondingly, the first male, Adam, is defined as Godlike human prototype, whereas the first female, Eve, is derived and therefore not theomorphic.",
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          "ref": "2002, Claudio Ferreira Costa, The Philosophical Inquiry: Towards a Global Account, page 76:",
          "text": "It seems that the more remote from scientific realization is the idea that the philosopher is searching to grasp, the more theomorphic the explanation will tend to be.",
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          "ref": "2012, Mona Siddiqui, “11: Perspectives on Theomorphism in Islam”, in Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller, Antje Jackelen, Taede Smedes, editors, Is Religion Natural?, page 171:",
          "text": "In this paper I will offer some reflections on interpretations of theomorphic themes in Islamic thought.",
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          "text": "2015, Mikhail Epstein, Post-Atheism: From Apophatic Theology to \"Minimal Religion\", Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture, page 453,\nIn the theomorphic representation there is no trace of God, but the locus and form of his absence are precisely indicated as the “highest or most powerful value,” even if this value is a negative one."
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