When pondering an icon of the transfiguration of Christ some time ago, I thought of something which I have not considered in my past readings of the transfiguration accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. And that is the transfiguration of Christ could be perceived as a representation of the Christian Scripture where Moses and Elijah, symbolising the Old Testament witness, and the apostles, symbolising the New Testament witness, both bearing testimony to Christ revealed. Indeed, the transfiguration is not only, as usually thought of, the apostles’ overwhelming vision of the divinity of the man Christ but also, as someone points out, a vision of a vision, in particular the apostle’s vision of Moses’ and Elijah’s vision of the humanity of God in the man Christ. Could it be said that the apostles encountered a man who is also divine; and Moses and Elijah spoke to God who is also a man?
22 May 2013
Transfiguration, Divinity and Humanity
When pondering an icon of the transfiguration of Christ some time ago, I thought of something which I have not considered in my past readings of the transfiguration accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. And that is the transfiguration of Christ could be perceived as a representation of the Christian Scripture where Moses and Elijah, symbolising the Old Testament witness, and the apostles, symbolising the New Testament witness, both bearing testimony to Christ revealed. Indeed, the transfiguration is not only, as usually thought of, the apostles’ overwhelming vision of the divinity of the man Christ but also, as someone points out, a vision of a vision, in particular the apostle’s vision of Moses’ and Elijah’s vision of the humanity of God in the man Christ. Could it be said that the apostles encountered a man who is also divine; and Moses and Elijah spoke to God who is also a man?
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