Revelation
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Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing (see etymology), or in the theological perception, making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication with the divine, "which could not be known apart from the unveiling" (Goswiller 1987 p. 3).
In monotheistic religions, revelation is the process, or act of making divine knowledge understood, often through direct ontological realization which transcends the human state and reaches into the divine intellect.
Revelation in a religious sense can originate from God, a deity, or their agents such as an angel, and discloses a willed outcome, principles, behaviors, laws and doctrines; this fact of an outcome is the "realized principle" (or "realizing principle").
Some religions have religious texts viewed as sacred and revealed by the Divine, the monotheistic religions often viewing them as the "Word of God".
See also
- Book of Revelation
- Continuous revelation
- Darśana
- Disciple (Christianity)
- Epistemology
- Gnosis
- God helmet
- Hierophany
- Holy spirit
- Intuition (knowledge)
- Jean-Luc Marion
- Nous
- Oracle
- Private revelation
- Progressive revelation (Christian)
- Prophecy
- Religious experience
- Revelation (The Urantia Book)
- Theology
- Theophany
