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Definition of Theophany
1. Noun. A visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person.
Definition of Theophany
1. n. A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.
Definition of Theophany
1. Noun. A manifestation of a deity to a man. ¹
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Definition of Theophany
1. [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theophany
Literary usage of Theophany
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"... resident in a pure light.t This veiled confession shows that the Initiates
enjoyed theophany — saw visions of Gods and of real immortal Spirits. ..."
2. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts (1871)
"ON THE HOLY theophany, OR ON CHRIST'S BAPTISM. A Discourse by our sainted Father
Gregory, Bishop of jV<?a- ..."
3. The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany by Alvan Lamson, Ezra Stiles Gannett, George Putnam, George Edward Ellis (1849)
"theophany ; or the manifestation of God in the Life, Character, and Missio)i of
Jesus Christ. By Rev. ROBERT TURN- BULL. Hartford. 1849. 12mo. pp. 239. , . ..."
4. The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch by Charles Augustus Briggs (1893)
"THE SEVERAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE theophany. We shall simply place four accounts
of theophanies to Moses, side by side, and then two accounts of ..."
5. Kansas in Literature by William Herbert Carruth (1900)
"theophany. If you stand upon a certain bluff on the south side of the Arkansas
river a few miles above the mouth of the Purgatoire, in the dawn of the ..."
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