The Human Presence of Jesus: A New Cosmology

“The lordship of Jesus; the fact that there is already a human being at the helm of the world; and his present intercession for us; all this is over and above his presence with us. It is even more over and above our sense of that presence, which of course comes and goes with our own moods and circumstances.

Now it is one thing to say all this It’s quite another to be able to envisage or imagine it, to know what it is we’re really talking about when we speak of Jesus being still human,

still in fact an embodied human–

actually,

a more solidly embodied human than we are

–but absent from this present world. We need, in fact, a new and better cosmology, a new and better way of thinking about the world, than the one which our culture, not least post-Enlightenment culture, has bequeathed us.”

— Surprised by Hope: Original, provocative and practical by Tom Wright

all of this springs from the fact that Jesus bodily ascended and has said that he will return in exactly the same way.

Suggest. “The great divorce”. and the “Space trilogy – Perelandra” and by C S Lewis