Book contents
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Reviews
- New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Human Perfection
- Part II Jesus’ Perfection
- Part III Transfiguration and Global Perfection
- Chapter 7 Perfection and the Transfiguration
- Chapter 8 Perfection
- Chapter 9 A Perfect Planet
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography in Christian Ethics
- Index
- Titles Published in the Series (continued from page )
- References
Chapter 7 - Perfection and the Transfiguration
from Part III - Transfiguration and Global Perfection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
Book contents
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Reviews
- New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Human Perfection
- Part II Jesus’ Perfection
- Part III Transfiguration and Global Perfection
- Chapter 7 Perfection and the Transfiguration
- Chapter 8 Perfection
- Chapter 9 A Perfect Planet
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography in Christian Ethics
- Index
- Titles Published in the Series (continued from page )
- References
Summary
Chapter 7 discusses how the Transfiguration is seen within the Synoptic Gospels – and especially in the careful New Testament and Patristic scholarship of Daniel Kirk, Teresa Morgan and Peter Anthony-- as the principal occasion when the moral and spiritual perfection of Jesus received divine affirmation. Alongside the patriarch Moses and the prophet Elijah, Jesus is glimpsed in the Transfiguration narratives, falteringly, as someone immensely special and divinely endorsed, by three of his disciples, who (in Luke and two sixth-century church mosaics) are themselves included within the cloud (perhaps even theösis) that envelops Jesus, Moses and Elijah. This chapter examines both Aquinas’ and recent Eastern Orthodox accounts of the social implications of transfiguration. It also notes that transfiguration has been deeply disfigured by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on the Feast of the Transfiguration in 1945.
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- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics , pp. 147 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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