The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading

by Patrick Schreiner

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2024

Overview

This book challenges reductive modern readings of the transfiguration and shows how the mountain scene is not only about Jesus’s glory but also about our own spiritual formation.

All three Synoptic Gospels tell the story of Jesus’s transfiguration. Yet there has been surprisingly little written about this key event, and many readers struggle to understand its significance and place in redemptive history, let alone how it might be applied.

Here, Patrick Schreiner provides a clear and accessible study of the transfiguration with an eye toward its theological significance and practical application. Namely, this event points to Jesus’s double Sonship, revealing the preexistent glory of the eternal Son and the future glory of the suffering Messianic Son. Further, the transfiguration points to Christians’ own formation and transfiguration. Schreiner not only traces the transfiguration theme through Scripture, but he employs hermeneutical, trinitarian, and Christological categories to assist his exegesis, thus challenging modern readings.

This enlightening study will be of interest to students, pastors, and serious lay readers.

Key Features

• Provides a clear and accessible study of the transfiguration
• Shows how the transfiguration is about both Jesus’s glory and our own spiritual formation
• Offers a theological reading with practical application

Contents

• Introduction: A Two-Level Christology
• 1. Overlooking the Transfiguration
• 2. The Glorious Setting
• 3. The Glorious Signs
• 4. The Glorious Saying
• 5. The Transfiguration and Theology
• Conclusion: Restoring the Transfiguration
• Appendix: Light from Light

Product Details

• Title: The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading
• Author: Patrick Schreiner
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 183
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Transfiguration; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Spiritual formation › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781540965967, 9781540967527, 9781493445424, 9781493445431, 1540965961, 1540967522, 1493445421, 149344543X
• Resource ID: LLS:TRNSFGRTNCHRDNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-27T19:30:13Z

About Patrick Schreiner

Patrick Schreiner (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is also an elder at Christ Church Sellwood in Portland. Schreiner is the author of The Body of Jesus: A Spatial Analysis of the Kingdom in Matthew and The Kingdom of God and the Glory of the Cross.