Show Me Your Glory That I May Know You

Manifestation of God's presence according to the Abrahamic religions

Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to describe the manifestation of God'southward presence equally perceived by humans co-ordinate to the Abrahamic religions.

Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded equally the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share or participate, imperfectly, in divine glory as image-bearers. Thus Christians are instructed to "let your light smooth before men, that they may meet your adept works, and glorify your Male parent in heaven".^[1]

Etymology [edit]

"Glory" is ane of the well-nigh common praise words in scripture. In the Hebrew Bible, the concept of glory is expressed with several Hebrew words, including Hod (הוד) and kavod (כָּבוֹד). Afterwards, these original Hebrew Bible concepts for glory were translated in the Christian Testament as the Greek give-and-take doxa (δόξα). The Hebrew word kavod (Hebrew: כָּבוֹד) (Chiliad-V-D) has meant "importance", "weight", "deference", or "heaviness", but primarily kavod means "glory", "respect", "honor", and "majesty". In translating the Hebrew Bible, the Greek word used is δόξα, a word besides appearing extensively in the New Attestation which was originally written in Greek. Doxa means "judgment, opinion," and by extension, "good reputation, honour". St. Augustine later rendered it equally clara notitia cum laude, "bright celebrity with praise".^[two]

In the Bible [edit]

Hebrew Bible [edit]

In Exodus 33:xviii-20, Moses is told that no human existence tin can run across the celebrity (Hebrew: כָּבוֹד kavod) of Yahweh and survive:

And the Lord said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for yous have found favor in my sight, and I know you lot by name." Moses said, "Please prove me your glory." And he said, "I will brand all my goodness pass earlier you and volition proclaim earlier yous my name 'the Lord'. And I volition exist gracious to whom I volition be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." But, he said, "you cannot run across my face, for man shall not run into me and alive." And the Lord said, "Behold, in that location is a identify by me where you shall stand up on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will embrace you with my paw until I have passed by. And then I volition take abroad my hand, and you shall see my dorsum, but my face shall not be seen."^[3]

The prophet Ezekiel writes in his vision:

And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the advent of burn enclosed all around. And downwards from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the advent of fire, and there was brightness around him. Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the twenty-four hour period of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.

Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my confront, and I heard the voice of one speaking.^[4]

New Testament [edit]

In the New Testament, the corresponding discussion is the Greek: δοξα, doxa, sometimes as well translated "brightness". For example, at the nativity of Christ:

In the countryside close by in that location were shepherds out in the fields keeping guard over their sheep during the watches of the night. An angel of the Lord stood over them and the glory of the Lord shone round them. They were terrified, just the affections said, 'Do not be agape. Look, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to exist shared by the whole people.'^[5]

In the event known as the Transfiguration of Jesus, Moses and Elijah appeared in celebrity with Jesus, and the disciples who witnessed this revelation, Peter, James and John, 'saw his celebrity'.^[six]

In the gospel of John, Jesus says that His destiny begins to be fulfilled when Judas Iscariot sets out to betray Him:

Now the Son of Human is glorified, and God is glorified in Him (John xiii:31.

Jesus afterward addresses a long prayer to His Begetter in which he says:

I have glorified you on globe past finishing the piece of work that you lot gave me to do. Now, Begetter, glorify me with that celebrity I had with y'all before ever the world existed.^[7]

In Catholicism [edit]

Cosmic doctrine asserts that the world was created as an act of God's free will for his own celebrity.^[8] Catholic doctrine teaches, however, that God does not seek to be glorified for his own sake, just for the sake of mankind that they may know Him.^[9]

In Anglicanism [edit]

The theologian C. Due south. Lewis, in his essay The Weight of Glory, writes "Glory suggests ii ideas to me, of which one seems wicked and the other ridiculous. Either glory means to me fame, or it means luminosity."^[10] He concludes that glory should be understood in the former sense, but states that one should not want fame earlier men (homo celebrity), only fame earlier God (divine glory). Where fame is understood equally "not (fame) conferred by our fellow creatures— (only, rather) fame with God, blessing or (I might say) "appreciation' by God. And then, when I had thought it over, I saw that this view was scriptural; zilch can eliminate from the parable the divine honour, "Well done, grand expert and faithful retainer.""

In Orthodox Christianity [edit]

Glorification (also referred to as canonization) is the term used in the Orthodox Christian Church for the official recognition of a person every bit a saint of the Church. The Orthodox Christian term theosis is roughly equivalent to the Protestant concept of glorification.

It is in this sense that the resurrected bodies of the righteous volition be "glorified" at the Second Coming. As the soul was illuminated through theosis so the restored torso will be illuminated by the grace of God when it is "inverse" at the Parousia (1 Corinthians 15:51). This glorified body will be like the resurrected body of Jesus (John xx:19–twenty); similar in appearance to the trunk during life, but of a more refined and spiritualized nature (one Corinthians fifteen:39).

In Protestantism [edit]

In his dissertation "Apropos the Terminate for which God Created the World", Jonathan Edwards concludes, "[I]t appears that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God'due south works is included in that one phrase, 'the glory of God'."

There are two events that occur during glorification, these are "the receiving of perfection by the elect before entering into the kingdom of heaven," and "the receiving of the resurrection bodies by the elect"

Glorification is the third stage of Christian evolution. The starting time being justification, then sanctification, and finally glorification. (Rom. eight:28-thirty) Glorification is the total realization of conservancy.

Receiving of Perfection [edit]

Glorification is the Protestant culling to the Cosmic purgatory, as it is "the means by which the elect receive perfection earlier inbound into the kingdom of Sky." Purgatory deals with the means by which the elect become perfect (by suffering physically and emotionally, people are believed to earn their way into heaven) and takes place after physical decease; glorification deals with the elect condign perfect and is a supernatural, ongoing procedure which takes place during life through the piece of work of the Holy Spirit subsequently people trust in Jesus for their eternal life. The bulk of Protestant denominations believe in this form of glorification, although some have alternative names.

Receiving of the Resurrection Bodies [edit]

After the concluding judgment, in some doctrines all the righteous dead volition arise and their bodies will be perfected and become a glorified body, nether which form they can enter Heaven.

In the Baháʼí Organized religion [edit]

The Baháʼí Faith claims that Baha'u'llah, whose name translates to the Glory of God, is the Messenger of God promised to human by all the older Abrahamic religions, like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In Baháʼí belief the Greatest Name is Baháʼ (بهاء), translated as "glory" or "splendour."^[11]

In Islam [edit]

In Islamic belief, God has 99 names, and in some Islamic traditions it is believed that there is a special subconscious 100th name which is the greatest.

To glorify God in Islam is 1 of the four eternal proficient deeds. Glorifying God (Tasbih, Arabic: تسبيح) is mentioned in many verses in the Quran. For example "The vii heavens and the world and all beings therein glorify God. There is not a unmarried thing that does not glorify God with praise, but you do not understand their glorification. God is truly clement and forgiving" [Quran 17:44]. The Islamic prophet Muhammad said the eternal good deeds (Arabic: الباقيات الصالحات ) are to glorify God (Tasbih تسبيح ), to praise God (Hamed. حمد ), to unify God (Tawhid, توحيد ) and to elevate God (Takbir, تكبير ).^[12] These are eternal good deeds due to their devotional and spiritual meanings equally the Muslims empathize them. For example, you glorify God because God is impeccable and you are in God's wonderful kingdom; you praise God because God is sustaining, ruling and loving you and everyone; you unify God because only God exists and nothing exists beside God; you elevate God then that zip would remain or be elevated in your heart beside God. Muhammad said "To glorify God, to praise God, to unify God and to elevate God is more pleasing to my center than everything nether the sun.^[13]" The Quran says "wealth and children are the gloss of the worldly life, while the eternal good deeds are improve" [eighteen:46]. It is a mutual human action of devotion for Muslims to glorify God (33 times), praise God (33 times) and elevate God (33/34 times) after each of the five daily regular prayers following the hadith saying of Muhammad.^[xiv]

Glorification in Islam has many layers of meanings that varies according to i's spiritual country and circumstances. Yet all these meanings by and large imply viewing God as impeccable and the feeling of wonderment for being in such glorious existence. Amidst these meanings for example are:

1. To glorify God is to have wonderment and integration with the universe, as a child is experiencing a universe that is singing with the child: "We did indeed bequeath on David favor from United states: O mountains, and birds, sing the celebrity of God along with him. and we softened atomic number 26 for him" [Quran 34:10].
2. To glorify God is to accept the heart that stands in wonderment seeing that for God everything is possible through ways or without means: "Celebrity to Him who journeyed His devotee by night, from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We blessed, so We might prove him some of Our wonders. For He is the all-hearing, the omniscient" [Quran 17:1].
3. To glorify God is to view God equally impeccable; that is to cleanse bad thoughts that y'all have about God: "And so the whale swallowed him, and he was blameworthy. If not for the fact that he was i who glorified God, he would have remained inside its guts until the 24-hour interval they are resurrected" [Quran 37:142-144].
4. To glorify God is to free one's mind from constrained conceptions that you have about God without cognition: "However they considered sprites partners to God, though God created them; and they falsely attribute sons and daughters to God, without noesis. Glory be to God, exalted beyond what they describe" [Quran vi:100].

These are merely few meanings, withal the glorification of God (Tasbih) is mentioned in more than than ninety verses in the Quran and in many hadith sayings of Muhammad.

Human glory [edit]

In comparing to the desire for glory from God, stands the want for glory from man. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica, cautions that an inordinate desire of glory, or praise, from man is a sin. He lists vainglory every bit a uppercase vice and, in some cases, as a mortal sin, cf. quotation.^[15] Still, this is non to be dislocated with the desire for what Aquinas calls honours, which Aquinas considered a good, and embraces a moderate and reasoned pursuance of.

As stated above (24, 12; 110, 4; 112, 2), a sin is mortal through being contrary to charity. Now the sin of vainglory, considered in itself, does non seem to be contrary to charity every bit regards the love of one'southward neighbour: still as regards the dear of God it may be contrary to clemency in two ways. On i manner, by reason of the thing near which i glories: for instance when one glories in something false that is opposed to the reverence we owe God, according to Ezekiel 28:two, "Thy heart is lifted upwards, and Thou hast said: I am God," and one Corinthians iv:7, "What hast yard that thou hast not received? And if k hast received, why dost k glory, as if g hadst not received information technology?" Or over again when a man prefers to God the temporal good in which he glories: for this is forbidden (Jeremiah 9:23-24): "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches. Only let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me." Or once more when a man prefers the testimony of man to God's; thus it is written in reproval of certain people (John 12:43): "For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God."

In another way vainglory may be contrary to clemency, on the part of the one who glories, in that he refers his intention to glory as his last finish: and so that he directs even virtuous deeds thereto, and, in gild to obtain it, forbears not from doing even that which is confronting God. On this mode information technology is a mortal sin. Wherefore Augustine says (De Civ. Dei five, fourteen) that "this vice," namely the beloved of human praise, "is and so hostile to a godly religion, if the centre desires glory more than it fears or loves God, that our Lord said (John 5:44): How can you believe, who receive glory one from another, and the glory which is from God solitary, yous exercise non seek?"

If, all the same, the love of human being glory, though it exist vain, be not inconsistent with charity, neither every bit regards the matter gloried in, nor as to the intention of him that seeks glory, it is non a mortal but a venial sin.

Co-ordinate to the Book of Revelation xx.11-15, the dead in Christ volition receive a perfect glorified body at the start resurrection; those saints live will be transformed into a glorified perfect body. The second resurrection is for the white throne judgement. Those non resurrected in the outset resurrection will exist resurrected for judgement to include those born during the thousand-year kingdom. Those whose names do not appear in the volume of life will be thrown in the lake of fire.

In art [edit]

The manifestation of glory (upon a saint for example) is frequently depicted in iconography using the religious symbol of a halo. Other mutual symbols of glory include white robes, crowns, jewels, gilded, and stars. The Coronation of the Virgin is one of the most mutual depictions of Mary in glory.

There are a number of specialised senses of "celebrity" in art, which all derive from French usages of "gloire". "Glory" was the medieval English language word for a halo or aureole, and continues to be used sometimes in this sense, generally for the full-trunk version. The subject of Christ in Majesty is too known as "Christ in Celebrity", and in general whatever depiction of a sacred person in heaven (e.grand. in the clouds, surrounded by angels) can exist called a "glory", although this sense is obsolete.^[16]

See likewise [edit]

• Apotheosis
• Hod (Kabbalah)
• K-B-D
• Tabor Low-cal
• Tasbih

References [edit]

1. ^ Matthew 5:16
2. ^ The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Glory"
3. ^ Exodus 33:17-23
4. ^ Ezekiel i:27-28
5. ^ Luke ii:8–x
6. ^ Luke nine:29-32 NKJV
7. ^ John 17:4–5
8. ^ The Cosmic Encyclopedia - Glory
9. ^ ST, 2-II, Q. 132, fine art. 1.
10. ^ Lewis, C.S. (2001). The Weight of Glory . HarperSanFrancisco. pp. 36.
11. ^ Smith, Peter (2000), "greatest proper name", A concise encyclopedia of the Baháʼí Religion, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, pp. 167–168, ISBN1-85168-184-1
12. ^ الراوي : أبو هريرة | المحدث : الألباني | المصدر : صحيح الجامع. الصفحة أو الرقم: 3214 | خلاصة حكم المحدث : صحيح. التخريج : أخرجه النسائي في ((السنن الكبرى)) (10684)، والعقيلي في ((الضعفاء الكبير)) (three/17)، والطبراني في ((المعجم الأوسط)) (4027) باختلاف يسير.
13. ^ لَأَنْ أقُولَ سُبحانَ اللهِ ، و الحمدُ للهِ ، و لا إلهَ إلا اللهُ و اللهُ أكبرُ ، أحَبُّ إليَّ مِمَّا طَلَعَتْ عليه الشَّمسُ. الراوي : أبو هريرة | المحدث : الألباني | المصدر : صحيح الجامع. الصفحة أو الرقم: 5037 | خلاصة حكم المحدث : صحيح | انظر شرح الحديث رقم 20507
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15. ^ ST, II-II, Q. 132, art. 4.
16. ^ In the first edition of the Oxford English language Dictionary (late 19th century), entry no. 9b for "celebrity" ("A representation of the heavens opening and revealing celestial beings") was annotated "? Obs."

External links [edit]

Orthodox Christianity [edit]

• The Glorification of Saints in the Orthodox Church building by Fr. Joseph Frawley
• The Glorification of Saints by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky
• What Does Glorification Hateful? by Fr. Alexey Young
• Eastern Orthodoxy and Theosis

Protestantism [edit]

Receiving of Perfection [edit]

• http://world wide web.abideinchrist.com/keys/sanctification-perfect.html
• http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/wws/salv17.htm

Receiving of the Resurrection Bodies [edit]

• http://www.1way2god.cyberspace/glorification.html

Show Me Your Glory That I May Know You

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(religion)

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