hierophanicadj.

1927 L. V. Rule Forerunners of Lincoln xx. 99 Royal governors had made destructive inroads on the hierophanic authority... The civil administration had ceased to be absorbed in and entirely dependent on the church.

1963 Hist. Relig. Summer 68 In Yucatan in the various Santos which the Indians possess, pictures, crucifixes, crosses, statues: of them all only some are hierophanic, only some possess the power.

1979 P. L. Berger Heretical Imperative iii. 90 The accounts of hierophanic experience must be taken with utmost seriousness as one reflects about them.

2002 R. A. Schoenherr Goodbye Father ix. 125 We have seen that the opposition between hierarchic and hierophanic power is the primal paradox in organized religion.

2016 V. Adrahtas in T. S. Willert & L. Molokotos-Liederman Innovation in Orthodox Christian Trad.? xi. 235 The hierophanic experience of indigenous Australians serves as a token of humanity's inherent need to experience the Sacred.