Chapter 1
A Name Both Vast and Near
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter overview
Nine chapters arranged for study, devotion, and wonder
Each chapter advances the book's central claim: the very Jesus of Nazareth is the eternal Son through whom all things were made, reconciled, and made new.
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The title of this book joins together terms that must never be pulled apart. Jesus is his personal name, Christ is his messianic office, and of Nazareth fixes him in history, geography, and public memory. Yet when we call him cosmic, we are saying something equally necessary: the significance of Jesus cannot be contained within the borders of Galilee, Judea, or even Israel.
This cosmic scope appears throughout the New Testament. Jesus claims that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. Paul says that God's purpose is to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth. Creation itself, groaning under bondage and decay, awaits liberation in connection with the revealing of the sons of God.
The cosmic one is the Nazarene, and the Nazarene is the cosmic one. The New Testament allows neither a merely local Jesus nor a faceless cosmic principle. In him universal lordship and historical particularity meet in one glorious person.
Chapter 2
In the Beginning Was the Word
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 3
Through Him and For Him
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 4
The Son Who Sustains All Things
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 5
The Man from Nazareth and the Blood of the Cross
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 6
The Lamb on the Throne
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 7
All Things Made New
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 8
Why This Matters Now
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.
Chapter 9
Conclusion: Behold Your King
A visual meditation designed to complement the biblical and literary movement of the book.