Exploring the Transfiguration Story

by John Michael Perry

In this concise study, John Perry enables the reader to see that the Transfiguration story does not recount an actual event, but was created to teach an important "symbolic" lesson abou thte Risen Jesus. To that end, he explains: (1) the conflict within the early church that called the story into being; (2) the nature ofmidrash and the role that it played in the formation of the story. Perry then considers why Mark, the writer of the first Gospel,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556125747
• ISBN13: 9781556125744
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Sheed & Ward
• Length: 59 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"