Talk:Epiphany

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"Epiphany is a "Christian" religious term and should not be used as equivalent to "Awakening" or "Realization" or "Satori" as in "Enlightenment." It is a word that should remain among the Christian beliefs.

it is from the french.75.28.176.250 (talk) 01:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * No, its definately from the greek, and thats where the french got it from
 * as for religion - was "Eureka!" a religious term? that was his epiphany and that is what the word means, enlightenment and realisation and I cannot really see how anyone believing in Buddha or Allah should not be able to have an epiphany just because christians want to keep it for themselves...

Many of our words are from greek or latin. Does that mean we can't refer to the definition of the word in English that this page takes great pains to avoid? I still have my dictionary from the old pre-internet days. It says: Epiphany 1. an appearance of God or other supernatural being. Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, Copyright 1970. I know there's a big push to secularize this word, but it can't succeed until a lot more people who know the difference have died. The age of fable (talk) 03:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Should a NN narrowboat really be on here? Robot Dolphin (talk) 16:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

From the Simpsons (throught singing). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.3.102.201 (talk) 20:54, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Epiphany (psychology)
I think that the moment of epiphany is notable, and has been researched by psychology scholars, and others, for example, in the studies of innovation. I think this already exists on some other wikis, for example, de:Erscheinung. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 03:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)