The theophany seems to have been effective with the Greek audience, and I believe it would usually be so with any audience that was not highly sophisticated and accustomed to associate such appearances with pantomime fairies.
A theophany or appearance of a god seems to have been in the essence of the original conception of Greek Drama; a study of the fragments of Aeschylus will illustrate this.
And yet one feels that a theology without a theophany is both dry and difficult to defend.
There are passages of the Persian Bayan which imply an interval between his own theophany and the next parallel to that which separated his own theophany from Muhammad's.
The cloud may have been an actual phenomenon, the natural basis of the theophany which follows.
The departure of the theophany appears to have left him in a state of mental prostration.
III No sooner has the prophet completed his tour of inspection of the sacred buildings than he is conducted to the eastern gate to witness the theophany by which the Temple is consecrated to the service of the true God.
But to bring Job to the feeling of this truth was just the purpose of the theophany and the divine speeches; and, if Job had reached it already through his own reflection, the theophany becomes an irrelevancy.
The next night The Lord stood in theophany by Paul, And said: "Be of good cheer; as thou of me Hast witnessed in Jerusalem, so must Thou also yet witness in Rome.
Throughout the period of apostasy the windows of heaven had been shut toward the world, so as to preclude all direct revelation from God, and particularly any personal ministration or theophany of the Christ.
This resplendent theophany confirmed the fact of a universal apostasy, with the inevitable corollary--that the Church of Christ was nowhere existent upon the earth.
The expression is notable, for the song of the sky is thunder and the theophany that of Sinai.
The theophany is perhaps similar to that of Sinai.
David's sin in numbering the people, and the theophany as occasioning the building of an altar on the threshing-floor of Araunah) is on the whole a copy of 2Samuel xxiv.
Before anything has happened, before the Midianites have made their yearly incursion, Gideon, who expects nothing of the kind, is summoned by a theophany to battle against them.
In the Priestly Code it almost loses the character of a theophany entirely.
A whole series of stories about them are cultus-myths; in these they discover by means of a theophany that a certain spot of earth is holy ground; there they erect an altar, and give it the name of the place.
The burning bush shows the theophany in the Jehovist to be the earlier.
The Theophany takes place in a violent tempest of thunder and rain, the only process of nature upon which the desert poets of Arabia dwell with any detail.
Some take it to have been inserted as an introduction to the theophany in chap.
The figures, the theophany itself, are not necessarily archaic, but are more probably moulded on archaic models.
Theophany and expressive of Israel’s faith in their God.
This is the only way of rendering the verse so as not to make it seem superfluous: so rendered it sums up and clenches the theophany from ver.
Whatever that theophany had taught him, it had not yet fully removed his perplexity.
It is a more serious question, What was the exact meaning of the theophany granted to Elijah on the Mount of God?
The splendor of the morning yet once more Was a theophany in Syria, When Saul and Sergius, met, from Paneas Started, with mind to overpass that day The spur of Hermon interposed between Them and Damascus.
Saul saw the prophet face of Stephen shine As it had been an angel's, but his heart To the august theophany was blind-- Blinded by hatred of the fervent saint, And hatred of the Lord who in him shone.
It comes in lovely contrast with the majestic and terrible picture preceding, like the wonderful setting forth of the purpose of the other theophany in Psalm xviii.
The peculiarity of this theophany is that God is not represented as coming from afar or from above, but as letting His light blaze out from Zion, where He sits enthroned.
The majestic theophany at the giving of the Law is taken as the culmination of His manifestations in the wilderness.
The superb idealisation of past deliverances under the figure of a theophany is prepared for by a retrospect of dangers, which still palpitates with the memory of former fears.
But the result of the theophanyis small only in the same fashion as its cause was small.
Therefore there is no disproportion between the theophany and the individual deliverance which is its sole result.
The individualising name "My God" occurs in each verse, and the deliverance underlying the theophany is described in terms which prepare for the fuller celebration of victory in the last part of the psalm.
The following prayer for further Divine help in further struggles is largely borrowed from the magnificent picture of a theophany in Psalm xviii.
Red Sea and the Jordan, which began and closed the Exodus, and the "quaking" of Sinai at the Theophany accompanying the giving of the Law.
When we remember the thunderstorms at Sinai, and the common belief that thunder was a special theophany of Jehovah, these ideas are not to be hastily dismissed as altogether incredible.
The theophanyat Horeb, therefore, whatever its embellishment and however symbolical its dress, is the true history of this period.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theophany" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
