“And thus let us learn that if want good assurance, if we want our souls to be at peace and rest, we must search both the beginning and the end of our salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“The transfiguration is both forward looking and backward looking, both anticipation and retrospection, both expecation and recognition.”
— Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ🔗
“The transfiguration is a well deep beyond imagining. When we think we have hit rock bottom, a new spring appears. When we think we have exhausted the meaning of the passage, a new depth opens. When we think we have understood the implications, a new mystery arises.”
— Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ🔗
“The cross and the transfiguration are not two competing visions but two complementary pictures of the Messiah.”
— Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ🔗
“In some ways, the cross is the reverse of the transfiguration. One shows us Jesus's ultimate disgrace, and the other his ultimate honor. While the face of Christ bore shame at his passion as he was spit on, beaten, and pierced with thorns, his face brightened with honor at the transfiguration.”
— Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ🔗
“We are tempted to think that Jesus's divinity overcomes his humanity, that this veil of flesh is vanquished for a moment. The transfiguration corrects us. God perfects flesh; he doesn't destroy it...The Son takes on flesh without any alternation of his divinity, bnut in so doing he perfects and sanctifies it. The transfiguration does not move us past Jesus's humanity: it reveals to us how the flesh will be glorified.”
— Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ🔗