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Theophany

noun
(pl. theophanies)
1.
A visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person.





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... understand anything spiritual, anything but bare, cold, material facts. The words of Jesus about knowing and seeing the Father caught his ear. That was just what he wanted,—to see the Father. So in his dulness he said, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." He was thinking of a theophany,—a glorious vision of God. Jesus was wondrously patient with the dulness of his disciples; but this word pained him, for it showed how little Philip had learned after all his three years of discipleship. ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller


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