theophany
noun
a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
theophanies
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pluralof theophany.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But when it is argued that wondrous theophanies are common to all faiths, two replies present themselves.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
And by fair implication, He would have us to identify the persons in these two great theophanies.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
Miracles, angels, theophanies, dreams, are never absent from the palette.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
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.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Then the sermonizer proceeds to relate some famous Bible story, resolving its naïve Semitic theophanies, its pictorial narration, its primitive morality, into the terms of contemporary ethical or political or economic principles.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
