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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
  1. 1

    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.