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
3 - God on Earth
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
Chapter 3, ‘God on Earth’, argues that, for John, Jesus’s body is the place where one may see God. It opens with John’s association of Jesus with the tabernacle and the temple, the most comprehensive descriptions of Jesus’s flesh and body in the Gospel, and asks whether one can read Jesus’s body as the literal ‘house of God.’ Evidence for this reading comes from an overview of Israelite and Early Jewish theologies that portray a God who can be in two places at once. John evidences a corresponding understanding of God’s dual presence in his association of the flesh and body of Jesus with the tabernacle and temple and in the Farewell Discourse. The chapter concludes that God can be on earth in Jesus’s body as well as in heaven.
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- Jesus and the Visibility of GodSight and Belief in the Fourth Gospel, pp. 89 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025