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Peter Paul Rubens' Death of Semele, caused by the Theophany of Zeus without a mortal disguise. Theophany (Ancient Greek: θεοφάνεια, romanized: theopháneia, lit. 'appearance of a deity' [1]) is an encounter with a deity that manifests in an observable and tangible form.
Much Hebrew theophory occurs in the Jewish Bible. The most prominent theophoric names are: names containing El, a word meaning might, power and (a) god in general, and hence in Judaism, God and among the Canaanites the name of the god who was the father of Baal. names containing Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh.
Certain early Christian writers identified the Angel of the Lord as a pre-incarnate Christ. For example, Justin Martyr claimed that the Angel was the Logos. He writes that "He who is called God and appeared to the patriarchs is called both Angel and Lord ...The word of God, therefore, recorded by Moses, when referring to Jacob the grandson of Abraham, speaks thus" [8] and that "neither Abraham ...
Theophany refers to the appearance of a deity to a human or other being. This term has been used to refer to appearances of the gods in the ancient Greek and Near Eastern religions. This term has been used to refer to appearances of the gods in the ancient Greek and Near Eastern religions.
Typology in Christian theology and biblical exegesis is a doctrine or theory concerning the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament. Events, persons or statements in the Old Testament are seen as types prefiguring or superseded by antitypes, events or aspects of Christ or his revelation described in the New Testament.
The word hierophany recurs frequently in the works of religious historian Mircea Eliade, who preferred the term to the more constrictive word theophany, an appearance of a god. [1] Eliade argues that religion is based on a sharp distinction between the sacred and the profane. [2]
Effect of light from the rose window in Bari Cathedral, recurring in religious architecture to metaphorically allude to the spiritual light. [1]In theology, divine light (also called divine radiance or divine refulgence) is an aspect of divine presence perceived as light during a theophany or vision, or represented as such in allegory or metaphor.
Theophany, the appearance or manifestation of a deity to mortals; Epiphany (holiday), a holiday celebrating the theophany of Jesus Christ; Tiffany (given name), an English form of the given name Theophania; Theophanes (disambiguation) or Feofan, a related masculine given name; Theophano (disambiguation), another form of the given name