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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Thus, theophany is better understood as an unambiguous manifestation of God, to man, where "unambiguous" indicates that the seers or seer are of no doubt that it is God revealing Himself to them.
		The Feast of Theophany in the Eastern Orthodox Church on January 6 of the Julian Calendar or Gregorian Calendar celebrates the theophany at Jesus' baptism.
		This theophany, known as the First Vision, is unique in that Smith claims that God the Father appeared physically, a first in Judeo-Christian religion.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Theophany (632 words)

	Theophany - OrthodoxWiki
		Theophany (from Greek theophania, meaning "appearance of God") is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated on January 6.
		The Feast of Theophany is the culmination of the Christmas Season, which starts on December 25 and ends on January 6.
		The feast is called Theophany because at the baptism of Christ the Holy Trinity appeared clearly to mankind for the first time -- the Father's voice is heard from Heaven, the Son of God is incarnate and standing physically in the Jordan, and the Holy Spirit descends on Him in the form of a dove.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Theophany (627 words)

	Theophany or Epiphany
		The feast is often called "Theophany", which means the shining-forth and manifestation of God.
		Christ stands in the Jordan River at the center of the Theophany icon.
		A cross or small Theophany icon may be attached with rubber cement.
	www.theologic.com /oflweb/feasts/01-06.htm (508 words)

	Eagle Christian Church
		When Adam’s theophanies move into Adam, and when it move out is a unanswered question when we are relating theophany teachings to the fall in the garden of Eden.
		The theophany is in you but naturally your spirit is not in your theophany, the house not made with hands, till the change of these vile bodies.
		There is only one original theophany and it is the same one that was in the beginning, which later became expressed in Jesus Christ when God the Word through Jesus was made manifested on earth.
	www.theeaglesview.org /church/theophanyarticle.html (2113 words)

	Catholic Insight : Liturgy : The Feast of the Theophany
		So begins the Great Blessing of Waters for the Feast of the Theophany, celebrated on January 19 at the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, across the river from Ottawa.
		For the past four years, the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ottawa has celebrated the Feast of the Theophany in St. Onuphrius Church, which is housed in the Canada Hall of the Museum of Civilization.
		The parish community of Smoky Lake, Alberta, donated this Ukrainian-Greco church, in use from 1915 to 1963, to the museum in the 1990s.
	catholicinsight.com /online/church/liturgy/theophany.shtml (714 words)

	Questions about Theophany
		The feast of Theophany is Jan 6 (Jan 19 on the civil calendar).
		We celebrate the baptism of Jesus Christ as a Theophany because the Holy Trinity was made manifest after His baptism (when He came out of the water).
		The power of water to sanctify and transform is amply demonstrated in baptism, and we believe that God chooses to bless us through holy objects and actions, such as the relics of those who have pleased God, holy icons, oil and water.
	www.orthodox.net /questions/theophany_1.html (1986 words)

	Theophany
		Originally, the Nativity, the Feast of the 3 Kings and the Theophany were all celebrated on one and the same day.
		The Theophany is a Feast of Enlightenment and this is why prayer and fasting as exemplified in the life of John the Baptist occupies so prominent a role as a means of preparation to receive the Light Who is Christ.
		The icon of the Theophany is one of only four "official" icons of the Holy Trinity that the Orthodox Church especially blesses as such (the others are the Old Testament Trinity, the Icon of Pentecost and that of the Transfiguration).
	www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org /articles/2005/Theophany.html (1472 words)

	Feast of the Holy Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
		Christ’s baptism in the Jordan was “theophany,” a manifestation of God to the world, because it was the beginning of our Lord’s public ministry.
		It was also a “theophany” in that the world was granted a revelation of the Holy Trinity.
		All three Persons were made manifest together: the Father testified from on high to the divine Sonship of Jesus; the Son received His Father’s testimony; and the Spirit was seen in the form of a dove, descending from the Father and resting upon the Son.
	www.goarch.org /en/special/listen_learn_share/epiphany/learn (1126 words)

	Define: paradox, synergism, theodicy, theophany, tradition, trauma, universalism, yogi
		paradox, synergism, theodicy, theophany, tradition, trauma, universalism, yogi.
		That is, in a theophany it is rather impossible to miss that it is God who is there, and not a stand-in or a projected image.
		The small quiet voice that Elijah heard qualifies as a theophany for the Jewish or Christian or Sufi-Moslem God, as do other small-scale personal encounters; but even there, it is not what the term usually refers to.
	www.spirithome.com /definiz.html (1563 words)

	Theophany - Epiphany - Bogoyavleniye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Obscured in the gray years of antiquity are the origins of the two feastdays, Theophany and Epiphany, which the Church celebrates on January 6.
		THEOPHANY (January 6) IN THE EASTERN CHURCH (3)
		John Chrysostom in his Discourse on the Baptism of Christ speaks of two Theophanies, the actual one on January 6, and the second one in the future at the end of the world.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/epiphany.htm (1225 words)

	What is a theophany? What is a Christophany?
		Answer: A theophany is a manifestation of God in the Bible that is tangible to the human senses.
		Frequently, the term, “glory of the Lord” reflects a theophany, as in Exodus 24:16-18; the “pillar of cloud” has a similar function in Exodus 33:9.
		A frequent introduction for theophanies may be seen in the words, “The Lord came down” as in Genesis 11:5; Exodus 34:5; Numbers 11:5; and 12:5.
	www.gotquestions.org /theophany-Christophany.html (332 words)

	Crosswalk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Lord appears to Abraham on his arrival in the land, wherein God promised the land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 12:7-9); God reaffirmed his promises of land and progeny when Abraham was ninety-nine years old (Gen 17:1), and on the Plains of Mamre on his way to destroy Sodom (Gen 18:1).
		In a looser sense, God's promise of the land to Abraham (Gen 15), as well as his commission that Abraham sacrifice Isaac (Gen 22), could be considered theophanies.
		A frequent introduction for theophanies may be seen in the words, "The Lord came down." Examples may be found in Genesis 11:5, Exodus 34:5, Number 11:25, and Numbers 12:5.
	bible.crosswalk.com /Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi?number=T690 (788 words)

	Theophany - Definition, explanation
		A theophany is a visible manifestation of God to humans.
		For example, in the Bible in Isaiah 6, the story of Isaiah seeing the Lord sitting upon a throne is called a theophany.
		Perhaps the best known example of theophany in the Torah is where God appears to Moses and, by many analyses, the entire nation of Israel on, and at the foot of, a mountain variously called Sinai or Horeb, and reveals his name and the text of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/th/theophany.php (359 words)

	Theophany Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is likely that I will be moving Theophany to another domain.
		There is tension in the air and unspoken disagreements hang among fears of losing that so precious connection...
		I can remember my brain threatening to explode as it strained to get wrapped around the thoughts and ideas cast before me that first year in college.
	www.theophany.us /theojournal (680 words)

	Welcome To The Theophany School
		The Theophany Orthodox Christian School strives to provide its students with an education that will prepare them for life, through sound instruction in basic studies and grounding in the Orthodox Tradition.
		At the pre-school level, this is achieved by providing students with a highly literate environment, filled with letters, books, phonics, colors, and activities that model literacy through language, reading and writing.
		More broadly, the curriculum of Theophany includes working with integrated thematic units that touch on meaningful and relevant issues in young students' lives.
	www.theophanyschool.org (150 words)

	Theophany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Theophany or Epiphany - the baptism of Christ
		The Twelfth Day of Christmas is the eve of the Epiphany, or Theophany, the manifestation of Christ and the Holy Trinity, and his baptism in Jordan.
		the year of jesus' birth • what time of year was christ born • why is christmas on december 25 • why is the epiphany or theophany on january 6 • christmas in early church
	www.suite101.com /reference/theophany (104 words)

	The Feast of the
		The original combination of the two commemorations in the one holy day of the Theophany is reflected in a similarity in the structure of the feasts of the Nativity and the Theophany.
		At the Liturgy on the eve of the Theophany 1 Cor.
		At Vespers of the feast of the Baptism of Christ the stichera (hymns) constitute an artistic retelling of the story of this event: the conversation between Jesus Christ and John the Baptist and his reluctance to baptize Christ; the opening of the heavens; the voice from heaven and the descent of the Holy Spirit.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/theophany_e.htm (6749 words)

	Theophany - Theopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A theophany is an explicit appearance of God to a person.
		Theophanies are relatively rare in the Bible, perhaps because it is very dangerous to be visited by the presence of God – we know from Genesis 33:20 that it is normally fatal to experience a theophany.
		In a sense the story of Jesus on Earth is one long theophany (John 14:9) but the term is generally reserved for dramatic, short-lived, super-natural experiences of God.
	theopedia.com /Theophany (459 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		It is also from this that the feast is called "Theophany", that is, the divine manifestation, God's appearance among men.
		The Feast of the Theophany is also called the 'Illuminating', for in the Jordan there is given to us an illumining, revealing God to us as Trinity, consubstantial and undivided.
		And the other is that each of us baptized in the water is illumined by the Father of lights, through the merits of the Son and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/feophany.html (776 words)

	The Feast of Theophany
		The Epiphany, or Theophany (6th January) is - after Easter and Pentecost - the greatest Feast of the Orthodox Church.
		It was foreshadowed in the theophanies of the Old Covenant of Israel, for example, the visit Abraham received at the oak of Mamre (Genesis 18:1) And, as Father Hopko says:
		This is why the word Epiphany meaning "manifestation" was replaced in the East by Theophany meaning "manifestation of God" the latter specifying and developing the meaning of the feast.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /resources/sermons/illtyd_theophany.htm (617 words)

	It Takes Two (or More): Genesis 18-19 and Communal Theophany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is not surprising, therefore, that the theophany that follows at the oaks of Mamre takes a plural form.
		That three figures come to Abraham need not indicate a privileging of either the vertical or the horizontal (or, perhaps, the universal and the particular), but rather it indicates that revelation entails an intersection of the two.
		While Abraham and Sarah and their household receive the theophany and become a new people, the men of Sodom reject the theophany and lose their people-hood.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/ssr/issues/volume2/number3/ssr02-03-r07.html (1105 words)

	Theophany Radio (Reconstruction)
		Theophany Radio ran successfully, nearly 24-7, from April to November 2004.
		Theophany Radio became too difficult (and expensive!) to operate almost completely on my own (!).
		Theophany Radio will, of course, return again in the future.
	www.theophanyrecords.com /radio.html (332 words)

	Theophany
		Originally the feast of Theophany included the birth of Christ, the adoration of the Magi and his presentation into the temple.
		The Holy Trinity appeared to Abraham and Sarah in the Old Testament, and announced the birth of Isaac, the long awaited son who was the start of the nation of Israel.
		The Greek meaning of the word Theophany is "the appearance of God." Epiphany in Greek means "to show forth" or "to manifest." That is why these two words are used interchangeably for this feast of the Orthodox Church.
	www.antiochian.org /1218 (352 words)

	Supreme Theophany Page
		For this reason such encounters, or theophanies, are communicated through the use of beautiful and powerful symbolic descriptions, such as Moses' encounter with the Burning Bush (Exod.
		This miniature is not an attempt to render any one of these accounts into a literal pictorial interpretation --something that could never be done adequately--but rather to create a pictorial conflation of various symbolic elements expressing the central aspects of this theme found in the sacred Bahá'í writings.
		This verse is included here to emphasize that this theophany should be understood as related to past theophanies in purpose and nature, and to testify to the unity of religion, a central teaching of Bahá'u'lláh.
	members.aol.com /adventarts/Supreme.html (3130 words)

	Deb on the run - Theophany again
		Stephen wrote some lovely words today on his blog concerning Theophany.
		"Theophany is a proclamation to nature itself of Christ’s salvation.
		This is the first I had heard that theophany recognized the baptism of Jesus.
	homeschoolblogger.com /debdillon/265255 (299 words)

	THEOPHANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In this respect, Theophany is both ”his story” and ”history” in one.
		In The Crane Bag Robert Graves wrote: ”The nucleus of every true poem is a single phrase which provides a key to its eventual form.” In the present lengthy mock-epic ”poem”, it is not a single phrase, but a single word which provided the key to its eventual form.
		In Immanuel Velikovsky’s Earth in Upheaval, ”theophany” is described as ”noise of the gods,” and in my own egotistical way, I understand it as ”noise of Theo.” The whole pulpy volume emerged from this single word.
	www.angelfire.com /sk/syukhtun/theo.html (293 words)

	ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc.: THEOPHANY: House Blessings
		During the days following the Feast of the Theophany (January 6th), it is customary for the Priest to visit the homes of his parishioners, bringing with him the “Jordan Water” for the traditional Theophany House Blessing.
		While that water may be given to the faithful to drink on that day and throughout the coming year, traditionally it is only the water from the Second Great Sanctification, which is performed on the day of the Feast of Theophany (January 6th), that is called "Jordan Water" and used for the Theophany House Blessing.
		PRIEST: For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
	southern-orthodoxy.blogspot.com /2006/01/theophany-house-blessings.html (1297 words)

	Water - Variation on a Homily of Theophany
		Theophany means "manifestation of God" wherein the Holy Trinity was revealed in Christ's baptism when the Father's voice proclaimed Jesus to be His obedient Son; and the Son was revealed as the Messiah, anointed by the Holy Spirit, descending on Him in the form of a dove.
		The focus of this liturgical festival is the revelation of God as the loving, divine Trinity working for the redemption and sanctification of humanity and the re-creation of the universe.
		Through the blessing of the water, our environment is revealed as the dwelling place of God and our families as renewed members of the family of God - children of the Father and co-heirs with Christ, who is the light of the world and fills all things with Himself.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/water.htm (2655 words)

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