REVELATION. The concept of revelation is a fundamental one in every religion that in any way traces its origin to God or a divinity. Revelation is a divine communication to human beings. This broad description allows the phenomenologist of religion to...

Revelation The notion of "revelation" is central to three of the major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Through Christianity in particular it has long been an important element in the religious thought of the West, and...

in religion, the disclosure of divine or sacred reality or purpose to mankind. In the religious view, such disclosure may come through mystical insights, historical events, or spiritual experiences that transform the lives of individuals and groups....

Transmission of knowledge from a god or gods to humans. In the Western monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revelation is the basis of religious knowledge. Humans know God and his will because God has chosen to reveal himself to...

*God’s disclosure of himself. The ultimate revelation for the Jewish people is the *Torah which God revealed to *Moses on Mount *Sinai. He also revealed himself through the *prophets, the *writings and through the *Oral Law. It remains a...

Bsm. recognizes no revelation in the sense of a disclosure of Truth to mankind by favour of a deity. Revelation of Truth is attained by each individual for and by himself by the removal of error from the mind and its consequent illumination or...

Revelation is an uncovering or disclosure via communication from the divine of something that has been partially or wholly hidden or unknown, "which could not be known apart from the unveiling" (Goswiller 1987 p. 3). In monotheistic religions,...