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Exalted above the Heavens: The Risen and Ascended Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians usually focus on what Jesus has done (his life, death and resurrection) and what he will do (his second coming and eternal reign). While there has been something of a revival of interest in his ascension, studies of Jesus in his exalted state are relatively rare. However, the Christ that Christians trust in, relate to and love is not only the one who lived, died, rose and will come...

natural observation but of revelation. For Luke, as we have seen, it is only when their eyes are ‘opened’ and Jesus is ‘made known to them’ that the disciples grasp who he is. For John, Jesus does not only appear to the disciples but is ‘manifested’ or ‘revealed’ (ephanerōthē—again passive) to the disciples (21:14). Their way of relating to him has changed following the resurrection. His identity has changed, not in the sense that he is no longer the same individual, but in the sense that he is not
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