hierophanically

hierophanic +‎ -ally or hierophanical +‎ -ly.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhɪəɹɒˈfænɪk(ə)li/
• Hyphenation: hi‧e‧ro‧phan‧ic‧al‧ly

hierophanically (comparative more hierophanically, superlative most hierophanically)

1. (religion) In a hierophanic (or hierophanical) manner.
   • 1983, Henry O[rrin] Thompson, editor, The Global Congress of the World's Religions: Proceedings, 1980–1982, Washington, D.C.: Global Congress of the World's Religions, OCLC 978-0-912193-00-7, page 285:

     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, […]

   • 2007 May, Jeffrey Lamar Howard, Heretical Reading: Freedom as Question and Process in Postmodern American Novel and Technological Pedagogy (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Austin, Tx.: University of Texas at Austin, OCLC 173401045, page 98:

     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.

   • 2012, Sheila J. Nayar, The Sacred and the Cinema: Reconfiguring the ‘Genuinely’ Religious Film, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2014, Georgina L. Jardim, Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series), Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.

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