Emphasis Preaching Journal

I am greatly indebted to a book by Ross Parmenter, The Awakened Eye, published in 1968 by Wesleyan University Press. The author coordinates for the general reader the thinking on vision of eye scientists, artists, psychologists, and religious visionaries. I recommend it to the preacher. It pointed me to a way of understanding the transfiguration not as something that happened to Jesus, but as an experience of transfigured seeing on the part of the disciples as they saw Jesus through the prism of the resurrection and the transfigured seeing that was part of that experience.