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Definition of theophany in English: theophanynounPlural theophanies θɪˈɒf(ə)niTHēˈäfənē A visible manifestation to humankind of God or a god. 圣灵显现；（神的）显灵 the great theophany of Sinai Example sentencesExamples - He declared that a theophany or revelation transformed a profane space into a sacred one, and thus it became locally fixed.
- As for the theophany in the eleventh chapter of the Gita, Arjuna has a vision of Krishna's awesome cosmic form and feels overwhelmed.
- It is stretching it to conclude, based on this one incident, particularly since this is a theophany, that God literally needed the food.
- We shall be fulfilled with his visible theophany in holy contemplations, and it shall shine round about us with radiant beams of glory just as of old it once shone round the disciples at the divine Transfiguration.
- In a famous sequence of wind, earthquake and fire, the noise of theophany is overwhelming; but it is only with the stunning quiet of the aftermath that the Lord speaks to Elijah in the ‘sound of sheer silence.’
- It is what is called a theophany, a manifestation of God, and it became one of the main texts used in Jewish and Christian discussion of God.
- These he divides into events (e.g., miracles, theophanies, life of Jesus), all possessing numinous phenomena and themes.
- People of all faiths and in every age have responded to the restless desire for theophany by walking to where holy men and women lived and were martyred in the service of a god.
- The clouds thus serve to veil the divine glory, which no human can see, as in other theophanies.
- Thus, the call of Moses uses theophany and promise to create a relationship with Yahweh, one that is expressed in Israel's obedience and carried forward to future audiences by means of Passover re-enactment.
- After hitch-hiking ever northwards to Derby, then hiring a plane to Coronation Gulf, he begins a Crusoe-like existence on a deserted island where he experiences two theophanies.
- And it's interesting that this word is used here to herald God's presence and to announce some kind of a theophany or some kind of a vision of God.
- Each is a divine theophany, a way in which the divine nature is manifested.
- As a result, the Book of Exodus is brimming with theophanies, legal formulas, songs, and poems.
- There is an epiphany and a theophany, and the faithful are called to ‘join in,’ invited to participate.
- His biography, written by St Gregory of Nyssa, describes the crowning moment of divine theophany.
- This may correspond to a realistic, representational way of thinking, but not the Orthodox symbolic realism that sees in the incarnation of the Word not a man walking about on the earth but the theophany in a human form.
OriginOld English, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek theophaneia, from theos 'god' + phainein 'to show'. Rhymescacophony, homophony, Zoffany Definition of theophany in US English: theophanynounTHēˈäfənē A visible manifestation to humankind of God or a god. 圣灵显现；（神的）显灵 the great theophany of Sinai Example sentencesExamples - There is an epiphany and a theophany, and the faithful are called to ‘join in,’ invited to participate.
- These he divides into events (e.g., miracles, theophanies, life of Jesus), all possessing numinous phenomena and themes.
- People of all faiths and in every age have responded to the restless desire for theophany by walking to where holy men and women lived and were martyred in the service of a god.
- It is stretching it to conclude, based on this one incident, particularly since this is a theophany, that God literally needed the food.
- This may correspond to a realistic, representational way of thinking, but not the Orthodox symbolic realism that sees in the incarnation of the Word not a man walking about on the earth but the theophany in a human form.
- He declared that a theophany or revelation transformed a profane space into a sacred one, and thus it became locally fixed.
- As for the theophany in the eleventh chapter of the Gita, Arjuna has a vision of Krishna's awesome cosmic form and feels overwhelmed.
- The clouds thus serve to veil the divine glory, which no human can see, as in other theophanies.
- As a result, the Book of Exodus is brimming with theophanies, legal formulas, songs, and poems.
- After hitch-hiking ever northwards to Derby, then hiring a plane to Coronation Gulf, he begins a Crusoe-like existence on a deserted island where he experiences two theophanies.
- We shall be fulfilled with his visible theophany in holy contemplations, and it shall shine round about us with radiant beams of glory just as of old it once shone round the disciples at the divine Transfiguration.
- And it's interesting that this word is used here to herald God's presence and to announce some kind of a theophany or some kind of a vision of God.
- It is what is called a theophany, a manifestation of God, and it became one of the main texts used in Jewish and Christian discussion of God.
- His biography, written by St Gregory of Nyssa, describes the crowning moment of divine theophany.
- Each is a divine theophany, a way in which the divine nature is manifested.
- In a famous sequence of wind, earthquake and fire, the noise of theophany is overwhelming; but it is only with the stunning quiet of the aftermath that the Lord speaks to Elijah in the ‘sound of sheer silence.’
- Thus, the call of Moses uses theophany and promise to create a relationship with Yahweh, one that is expressed in Israel's obedience and carried forward to future audiences by means of Passover re-enactment.
OriginOld English, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek theophaneia, from theos ‘god’ + phainein ‘to show’. |