DHe was on August 6th Catholic Church Since 1457, this has been the official holiday of the Transfiguration of Christ. The story you remember can be read in three of the four gospels: One day, Jesus went to a mountain with Peter, John, and Jacob, where his clothes suddenly turned white and he himself started to shine from within. In addition, two known prophets in the Old Testament appeared-Moses and Elijah. While Jesus was talking to them, a cloud fell on the top of the mountain, and the voice of God announced that the shining young man was his son. But Jesus quickly returned to his familiar appearance. After he advised his three companions not to talk about it with anyone for the time being, they went downstairs to meet the other disciples. They tried to cure a boy with epilepsy, but they didn’t. success. .
Martin Luther In his Bible translation, this event is called the “transfiguration of Christ”. In contrast, the term “transfiguration” was used in ancient Greece (still in Orthodox churches today). The Latin Vulgate speaks of “transfiguration”, a word that has been used in Romance languages and English to this day. Unlike these two expressions that emphasize deformation, the German word “Verklerung” is related to the word “klar”.
Suffering and divine glory on earth
When Jesus was in disguise, he didn’t change into something else. On the contrary, he just made it very clear what he was already. He is the Son of God, and this can be seen from his image as a supernatural light even before the sound is confirmed. For Luther, who usually believes more in words than visible phenomena, this “clarification” of the deity of Jesus of Nazareth is also a kind of “transformation”, because Jesus is not only the true God, but also the true God. Man, because he suffered no less than any other person when he was crucified.
However, the suffering in the world is not only inseparable from the divine glory in Christ; the two are also interrelated in the hope of those who think that Christ is the Son of God. For them, the short-term transfiguration of Jesus guarantees that they will be like him, resurrected again after the sufferings of earthly life and their death at the final judgment, and will enter heaven. Therefore, after this, all Christians will receive a permanent and irrevocable transformation. Therefore, Markus Kleinert distinguished two ways of using this term in his “Art, Religious, and Philosophical Transformation Attempt.” Not only was the “temporary transfiguration” that only happened more than two thousand years ago, it alone affected Christ. There is also the “final transformation” that all Christians can look forward to in the unknown future after death.
