单词 | theophany |
释义 | theophanyn. a. A manifestation or appearance of God or a god to man. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > vision > [noun] visionc1290 bethphanya1634 theophanya1634 beatific vision1702 Christophany1843 theophanism1849 a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 56 First, the Starre manifested him..from the Heavens. That's, the Epiphany: Secondly, it manifested him from God (in Trinity): for hee sent the Starre. There's, the Theophany. And lastly; It manifested him on Earth (in Domo):..There's the Bethphany. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 193 Neither was the name Theophanie, which signifies the apparition of God or the Gods, unusual even among the Gentiles. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. v. 352 The universe is but a sublime Theophany, a visible manifestation of God. 1894 F. Watson Bk. Genesis true Hist. vi. 141 In the records of the Theophanies to Joshua, Gideon, and Manoah. 1894 F. Watson Bk. Genesis true Hist. vi. 141 The Theophany to Elijah at Horeb. 1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 256 The practical joker desires to make others obey him without being aware of his existence until the moment of his theophany. b. A festival celebrating the manifestation of a deity. (Sometimes spec. applied to Christmas.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > of manifestation of deity theophany1756 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Theophania, θεοϕάνεια,..a festival observed by the Delphians upon the day whereon Apollo first manifested himself to them.] 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 35 The Greeks still keep the Epiphany with the birth of Christ on Christmas-day, which they call Theophany, or the manifestation of God. Derivatives theoˈphanic adj. of or pertaining to theophany. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective] inspiredc1450 illumined1526 godly-wise1532 revealed1533 illuminate1563 enthusiast1578 lightsome1587 enthusiastical1588 entheate1603 enthusiac1603 enthusiastic1603 illuminated1606 illightened1609 enthean1612 theopneust1647 illuminative1649 entheous1682 revelational1693 entheal1736 entheastic1804 theopneustic1838 theophanic1884 inspirational1888 theophanous1909 Beatrician1943 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2346 No vision is without a theophanic element. 1886 C. A. Briggs Messianic Prophecy i. vi. §10. 20 It is the theophanic manifestation of God in forms of time and space and the sphere of physical nature. theˈophanism n. theophany; also, belief in theophanies. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > vision > [noun] visionc1290 bethphanya1634 theophanya1634 beatific vision1702 Christophany1843 theophanism1849 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > vision > [noun] > belief in theophanism1849 1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress II. iii. xiii. 184 (note) All the theophanisms (God-manifestations) recorded in the Old Testament. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy v. 81 An adherent (on and off) of the extreme theophanism of William of Champeaux. 1970 R. Manheim tr. H. Corbin Creative Imagination in Ṣūfism 52 Not to understand..Ibn ‘Arabī's conscious intention..of expressing a divine love, would be..to close one's eyes to the theophanism on which this book insists. theˈophanous adj. characterized by theophany. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective] inspiredc1450 illumined1526 godly-wise1532 revealed1533 illuminate1563 enthusiast1578 lightsome1587 enthusiastical1588 entheate1603 enthusiac1603 enthusiastic1603 illuminated1606 illightened1609 enthean1612 theopneust1647 illuminative1649 entheous1682 revelational1693 entheal1736 entheastic1804 theopneustic1838 theophanic1884 inspirational1888 theophanous1909 Beatrician1943 1909 19th Cent. Oct. 676 This theophanous land. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1634 |
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