theophany
/thee-of-uh-nee/US // θiˈɒf ə ni //UK // (θɪˈɒfənɪ) //
启示录,显灵论,显灵,启示
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural the·oph·a·nies.
- : a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
Examples
The Book of Mormon contains a circumstantial account of this marvelous theophany.
They do not deny a theophany in the gift of Christianity; but they deny two very different things, viz.:—1.
That this is theophany alone;—that is, they look for some divine elements elsewhere; and they look for some human here.
The scene of the theophany, therefore, according to J, is to be placed on the way from Midian to Goshen.
All existence is a theophany, and as God is the beginning of all things, so also is He the end.
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