Theophany

When I first learned of that correlation in college, I at once associated the idea of theophany with that of vocation and that of baptism with both. ❋ Mike L (2008)

This is what theologians call a theophany—a temporary vision of God given to his people for the purpose of encouragement. ❋ JONATHAN FALWELL (2008)

In fact, the so-called theophany doesn't reveal anything that is not accessible to natural theology and a Wisdom perspective. ❋ James F. McGrath (2007)

As I said in a post about Job which appeared here a couple of years ago, I think that the genre of this book, as Wisdom literature, is crucial to interpreting the "theophany" presented at the end. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

The message of the first part of the 'theophany' could be summarized as follows: "If you think you can organize a world better than I have, go ahead!" ❋ James F. McGrath (2007)

The 'theophany' thus shows from nature that our claims to understand it all including the sufferings of any given human individual are arrogant and misguided. ❋ James F. McGrath (2007)

So why does the 'theophany' mention the things it does? ❋ James F. McGrath (2007)

His appearance on horse-back is a kind of theophany, cowboys doing him homage with a reverential gesture: ❋ Wills, Garry (1990)

United together in anticipation of the gift promised by the Lord, the apostles and disciples experienced a theophany, or visitation by God. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ÂEastern churches focus on Christ's baptism in the Jordan as the location of his theophany: God the Father announces "This is my Son, in whom I am well-pleased" as Christ comes up from the waters of the Jordan. ❋ Christopher Cocca (2011)

Eastern churches focus on Christ's baptism in the Jordan as the location of his theophany: God the Father announces "This is my Son, in whom I am well-pleased" as Christ comes up from the waters of the Jordan. ❋ Christopher Cocca (2011)

Every time a theophany occurred in the Old Testament, God was about to move his children in a new way. ❋ JONATHAN FALWELL (2008)

The plots often turn on some theophany, an appearance of the divine spark in the grim world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That the power of sacramental baptism ex opere operato, by which we are initiated into the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, is our ontic incorporation into the divine life, is manifest in the theophany of the Trinity at Jesus' own baptism. ❋ Mike L (2008)

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi writes of his own experience, I did not experience one seismic and pivotal movement with its special theophany. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The inspiration for this entry in fact comes from some verses in Exodus 33 - a story tucked away between the better-known stories of the golden calf and of the theophany in which Moses gets to see God's "rear end" and then provides new tablets with the "ten commandments" which don't match those originally given in Exodus 20. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

If the world is a theophany, then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics. ❋ James Killus (2007)

How is it, then, that this particular example of Wisdom literature depicts a heavenly scene at the beginning and ends with a theophany? ❋ James F. McGrath (2007)