Hierophanically

Quick meaning: Hierophanically is an adverb meaning (religion) In a hierophanic (or hierophanical) manner.

Meaning

(religion) In a hierophanic (or hierophanical) manner.

Example Sentences

In this passage, the natural elements hierophanically explicate a display of divine action in Creation and disclose somewhat of the nature of the one God, here with emphasis on God's creative powers and omniscience.

This disquieting insight may also give rise to the exhilarating possibility that there may be a transcendent realm outside of the physical, visible world of everyday existence, which can periodically manifest itself hierophanically in moments of gnosis.

Under no circumstance should we be dismissive of spectators and critics who find these films more satisfying, more hierophanically potent or real. Individuals coached into a high-literate mode of textual engagement may be understandably equating quiescence and quietude with the sacramental.

Above all, the mystery cults of the ancient world provided man with a god on which he could have a hold. The god was individuated enough to be a person, born hierophanically by a real bull or goat or pig, physically slaughtered, and physically consumed, or symbolically by means of real substitutes, identified with the forces of nature, […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hierophantically, hieratically, henotheistically, hierurgically, religionistically, pharisaically.

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