Transfiguration and living to the glory of God

The memorial tablet of Michael Ramsey, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury reads,

 "The Glory of God is the living man and the life of man is the vision of God."

Ramsey's best book was The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ. It isn't so much a book of technical NT scholarship as a study that opens up the Gospel text with studied reverent care. In it a young Ramsey reflects on the ambiguity of that glory which both reveals and obscures the presence of God, but which in Jesus compels such attention as judges us all.

Out of his own praying he wrote this scholarly meditation on one of the most mysterious and transformative stories of Jesus. In Ramsey's own spirituality he grew in later years to contemplate further on  this Christ-enriched sense of glory. And by glory he meant the shining splendour of love diffused with holiness, and that dazzling holiness incarnate in the One in whom all the fullnes of God's love was pleased to dwell.

"The Glory of God is the living man and the life of man is the vision of God."

"Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever...."

Comments

[berenike]

"the glory of God is man fully alive; moreover man's life is the vision of God: if God's revelation through creation has already obtained life for all the beings that dwell on earth, how much more will the Word's manifestation of the Father obtain life for those who see God."

St Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 4,20,7

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vi.xxi.html