theophany

From Late Latin theophania, corresponding to theo- +‎ -phany, from θεο (theo, “God”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /θiːˈɒfəni/

theophany (plural theophanies)

1. A manifestation of a deity to a person.
   • 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 47:

     It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.

• epiphany
• hierophany