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Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord is unavailable, but you can change that!

The episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus plays a key role in the narrative of the Synoptic Gospels. Peter and his fellow Apostles have just acknowledged Jesus to be Israel’s long-awaited Messiah, and have been shocked by Jesus’ immediate prediction of his coming passion and death. Now Peter, James and John are allowed to share an extraordinary vision, marking him out as truly God’s own Son,...

the coming challenges of the Passion, but as signs of a deep recognition of the eschatological importance of the moment: he recognizes Jesus’ glory truly as an anticipation of human fulfillment. Andrew also interprets the “bright cloud” overshadowing the mountain as a figure of the Holy Spirit, implying that it is only by receiving the Spirit ourselves in baptism that we can enter into a full and participative understanding of the Trinity. Andrew concludes his homily with a powerful exhortation to
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