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A Christophany is an appearance or non-physical manifestation of Christ. Traditionally the term refers to visions of Christ after his ascension , such as the bright light of the conversion of Paul the Apostle .
The term Christophany has also been coined to identify post-incarnate appearances of Christ in both the Old and New Testaments. 1 Peter 4 (v.6) allows for the interpretation that on the Son's Father-Spirit (as the third member of the trinity fulfilling the unity of various persons as Christ is crowned King of Kings) and being conferred from the ...
The appearance, or Christophany, of Jesus to Paul and others, was "internal and subjective." [13] Reflection on the Messianic hope, and Psalms 16:10, [14] [note 1] led to an exaltated state of mind, in which "the risen Christ" was present "in a visionary manner," concluding that Jesus must have escaped the bondage of death. [13]
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's transformation on the road to Damascus) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease ...
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The proximity of the terms "man" and "God" in the text in some Christian commentaries has also been taken as suggestive of a Christophany. J. Douglas MacMillan (1991) suggests that the angel with whom Jacob wrestles is a "pre-incarnation appearance of Christ in the form of a man". [23]
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The book was also listed as Christophany: the Result of original Investigations into the Manifestations of the Son of God, under the Old Testament Dispensation. [3] It was one of the first texts to use the term " Christophany " to apply to claimed appearances of Christ as angels in the Hebrew Bible, rather than in the New Testament sense such ...