Books on Jesus’ ascension are rare; books on the Transfiguration of Jesus are rarer still. Accordingly, Patrick Schreiner’s volume The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading is much needed for a much-neglected topic—and the author does not disappoint.
Schreiner maps the Transfiguration in relationship to Jesus’ career, biblical themes, and other Christian doctrines. His purpose is to show through a theological reading that Jesus’ Transfiguration—a mountain-top milestone event in which Jesus’ appearance is transformed, with OT prophets Moses and Elijah and disciples Peter, James, and John in attendance—is an unveiling of his pre-existent glory and presages the progressive conformity of the Christian to the glory of God, where we can behold “God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ’ (2 Cor. 4:6) and “see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).
