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When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticism or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

There is no English name for such a sweet excess of devotion, so I will refer to it as a theopathic condition.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William