Book contents
- Jesus and the Visibility of God
- Society for New Testament Studies
- Jesus and the Visibility of God
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I God and Visibility
- Part II Seeing God
- 4 The Efficacy of Empirical Vision for Belief
- 5 Seeing Jesus and Seeing God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Seeing Jesus and Seeing God
from Part II - Seeing God
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2025
- Jesus and the Visibility of God
- Society for New Testament Studies
- Jesus and the Visibility of God
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I God and Visibility
- Part II Seeing God
- 4 The Efficacy of Empirical Vision for Belief
- 5 Seeing Jesus and Seeing God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Having established that God is the goal of belief, that God is physically visible in Jesus, and that physical sight can lead to belief, Chapter 6, ‘Seeing Jesus and Seeing God’, draws these three points together by asking whether John portrays visual encounters with Jesus as visual encounters with God. The chapter argues that the physical act of seeing Jesus is a necessary condition for seeing God in him despite the challenge that God emerges as most visible in Jesus’s most acutely human moments. Evidence for this position arises from exegesis of three passages in which Johannine characters see Jesus (John 6:19; 19:6; 20:14–29) as well as John’s account of the crucifixion as glorification (12:1–50; 19:28–37). The chapter closes by turning to the crucifixion and examining the profound irony of Jesus’s death as the high point of divine visibility in the Gospel.
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- Jesus and the Visibility of GodSight and Belief in the Fourth Gospel, pp. 169 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025