In his book on the Transfiguration, John Gatta notes that Christ showed the God is present in all creation, not in the human part of it.
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Great Trees, Apostles of the Living Light
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Erdrich, Snakes, and the Transfiguration
Erdrich’s “Sermon to the Snakes” in “Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse” probes the question of whether God’s love drives the universe.
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The Transfiguration’s Green Promise
Christian environmental scholar Gatta believes the Transfiguration story offers a religious paradigm for environmentalists.
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Transfiguration: I Saw a Tree inside a Tree
Here’s a Christian Wiman poem for Transfiguration Poem that gets at those moments when the veil is momentarily lifted and we see into the life of things.
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All Our Seeing Rinsed and Cleansed
Edwin Muir’s “The Transfiguration” is filled with images of cleansing and renewal as the disciples imagine returning to the Garden of Eden as it was before the fall.
To the Pure All Things Are Pure
Edwin Muir’s beautiful poem about the transfiguration points the way to pure seeing for all of us.
A Glimpse from God’s Eyes
In Kathy Coffey’s poem, a mountain hike reveals a sudden glimpse into the sublime that brings Jesus’s transfiguration to mind.
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