theophanic

I've never actually had the full-on psychotic break, but I recognise symptoms of both acute and chronic stages in my own exegetic inquiries from adolescence through my early twenties: apophenia; smearing of meaning; loss of affect; theophanic ecstasy.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007

Their localization has a mythic, even theophanic strength; but that does not cancel the psychological drama of having to progress from their haunting to the concept of Nature itself, nature as

An Interview with Harold Bloom 2006

In other words, the argument is that we have reason to think that the Qur'an itself, in Arabic, as a recited book, is theophanic.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

In other words, the argument is that we have reason to think that the Qur'an itself, in Arabic, as a recited book, is theophanic.

I'jaz al-Qur'an 2005

Ch. i., however, is confessedly vague, and moves for the most part along the familiar lines of theophanic descriptions.

Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

The first is theophanic; the second, theopneustic; and the third, theologic.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The next form shall be the return of the theophanic manifestations on earth, in a more perfect and abiding form than in the first age (Re 21: 3).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Hence, it follows, that I find Hasisadra's account of their share in his adventure incredible; and, as the physical details of the flood are inseparable from its theophanic accompaniments, and are guaranteed by the same authority, I must let them go with the rest.

Hasisadra's Adventure Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Elsewhere in the Gospel we hear that Abraham "saw his day," and Isaiah "beheld his glory;" but it not said that he became, i.e. entered into permanent and unalterable relations with these theophanic glories.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jr. Reverend William E. Flippin 2011

The significance of the act is quite different, for the presentation of Jesus, according to Luke, has an apocalyptic and theophanic character.

cause of our joy 2009