revelation

(noun)

A manifestation of divine truth.

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Examples of revelation in the following topics:

  • The Quran

    • Upon receiving his first revelations, Muhammad was deeply distressed.
    • When the revelations resumed, he was reassured and began preaching.
    • Muhammad's first revelation, according to the Quran, was accompanied by a vision.
    • Muslims believe the Quran to be both the unaltered and the final revelation of God.
    • A depiction of Muhammad receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel

  • African Americans in Southern Politics

    • Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
    • As senator, Revels advocated compromise and moderation.
    • Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives, the second black person to serve in the United States Congress, the first African American to be directly elected to Congress (Revels had been appointed), and the first black presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.
    • Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American in the Congress.

  • Political Art

    • The notion that personal revelation through art can be a political tool, guided activist art in its study of public dimensions and private experience.
    • Discuss how personal revelation through art was used as a political tool by feminists in the 1990s.

  • Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

    • The Revelers Vase is an amphora that depicts three drunk men dancing.
    • Breaking the traditional rigidity of contemporary Archaic statues and paintings, the revelers are in dynamic postures.

  • Simplifying Matrices With Row Operations

    • Using elementary row operations to obtain reduced row echelon form (rref in the calculator) the solution to the system is reveled in the last column: $x=2, y=3, z=-1$.

  • Early Life of Muhammad

    • That man was the 35-year-old Muhammad, five years before his first revelation.
    • Occasionally he would retreat to a cave in the mountains for several nights of seclusion and prayer; it is reported that it was at this spot that he was visited by Gabriel and received his first revelation from God.

  • Islam Ascendant

    • While praying in the Masjid al-Qiblatain in Medina in 624 CE, Muhammad received revelations that he should be facing Mecca rather than Jerusalem during prayer.
    • Muhammad received revelations that he should face Mecca, rather than Jerusalem, in 624 CE.

  • The Reagan Administration

    • Reagan's second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War, the 1986 bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair.

  • Theism and Monotheism

    • Deism typically rejects supernatural events (prophecies, miracles and divine revelations) prominent in organized religion.

  • The Political Revolution

    • An alternative religion was Deism, the philosophical belief in a deity based on reason, rather than religious revelation or dogma.