Revelation

This article is about supernatural revelation. For the final book of the New Testament, see Book of Revelation. For other uses, see Revelation (disambiguation).
Illumination from Liber Scivias, showing Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision, dictating to her scribe and sketching on a wax tablet

In religion and theology, revelation (or divine revelation) is the disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity (god) or other supernatural entity or entities.[1]

  1. ^ Bernhardt, Reinhold (2007). "Revelation". In von Stuckrad, Kocku (ed.). The Brill Dictionary of Religion. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/1872-5287_bdr_SIM_00056. ISBN 9789004124332.