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
- 1 ‘My Lord and My God’ in John 20:30–31
- 2 Divine Visibility
- 3 God on Earth
- Part II Seeing God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Divine Visibility
from Part I - God and Visibility
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
- 1 ‘My Lord and My God’ in John 20:30–31
- 2 Divine Visibility
- 3 God on Earth
- Part II Seeing God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Recognizing God in Jesus may be the goal of belief, but one must ask whether God himself is available for recognition. Chapter 2, ‘Divine Visibility’, argues that John’s Christology affirms the visibility of God by reconciling the notion of an ‘unseen’ God to the visibility of the Father that Jesus presents. It proposes that John 1:18a is best read as ‘no one has ever [fully] seen God [yet]’. Three pieces of evidence support this claim, chief among them a survey of Early Jewish, biblical, and Rabbinic literature revealing that one may not assume that all – or, perhaps, even many – Hellenized Jews embraced Platonist notions of invisibility. If one reads John’s God as ‘unseen’, rather than as ‘invisible’, the visibility of God in Jesus becomes possible and the tension between the seeing and not seeing God passages can be resolved.
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- Jesus and the Visibility of GodSight and Belief in the Fourth Gospel, pp. 68 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025