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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theophany \The*oph"a*ny\, n.; pl. -nies. [Gr. ?; ? God + ? to appear.] A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"an appearance of God to man," 1630s, from Late Latin theophania, from Greek theos "god" (see theo-) + phainein "to show" (see phantasm). In Middle English "Epiphany" (late 12c.). Ancient Greek Theophaneia was the name of a festival at Delphi during which the statues of Apollo and other gods were displayed to the public.
Wiktionary
n. A manifestation of a deity to a man.
WordNet
n. a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person
Wikipedia
Theophany (from Ancient Greek , meaning "appearance of a god") refers to the appearance of a deity to a human.
This term has been used to refer to appearances of the gods in the ancient Greek and Near Eastern religions. While the Iliad is the earliest source for descriptions of theophanies in the Classical tradition/era (and they occur throughout Greek mythology), probably the earliest description of a theophany is in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The term theophany has acquired a specific usage for Christians and Jews with respect to the Bible: It refers to the manifestation of God to people; the sensible sign by which the presence of God is revealed. Only a small number of theophanies are found in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament.
Usage examples of "theophany".
Can it have a theophany with nothing to look at but dustbins and brick walls and never a moment of silence and loneliness?
I have already explained, Quinn had received a theophany only last night, seeing Merrick and his doppelganger spirit both passing into the Light.
It may be that all those who seek to serve the Theophany, and perhaps even all those who allege to serve him, though they appear to us to differ so widely and indeed to wage a species of war upon one another, are yet linked, like the marionettes of the boy and the man of wood that I once saw in a dream, and who, although they appeared to combat each other, were nevertheless under the control of an unseen individual who operated the strings of both.
Isidore of Pelusium, in Egypt, mentions the Theophany and the Nativity of our Saviour, according to the flesh, as two different festivals.
Osiris and the latter, the sacred animal of Heliopolis, a theophany of the god Ra.
No wonder prophets had responded to theophanies by abasing their bodies and wailing over their sins.
As to theophanies, the sight of the infinite Deity is expressly denied: John i.
The chapter also shows how the Old Testament theophanies must have given an impetus to the distinction between the Deity as transcendent and the Deity as making himself visible.
Hence they have certain names and predicates in common, and it frequently remains uncertain, especially as regards the theophanies in the Old Testament, whether it was a high angel that spoke, or the Son through the angel.
Moreover, the revelations of God in the Old Testament made by Theophanies, must have seemed, because of this their form, much more exalted than the revelations made through a man raised to power and glory, which Jesus constantly seemed to be in the Adoptian Christology.
Moreover, the revelations of God in the Old Testament made by Theophanies, must have seemed, because of this their form, much more exalted than the revelations made through a man raised to power and glory, which Jesus constantly seemed to be in the Adoptian Christology.
But if God exists, he must be a deus absconditus -- with the exception of his rare theophanies, or else he does not exist at all.
But if God exists, he must be a deus absconditus-with the exception of his rare theophanies, or else he does not exist at all.
The technical term -- theological technical term, not psychiatric -- is theophany.
The latter view makes more sense, except for the theophanies, rare though they be.