Glaser notes that the “story of the New Testament is that God comes out of the closet of heaven and out of the religious system of the time to reveal Godself in the person of Jesus Christ.”8 For example, God’s coming out as the infant Jesus in the incarnation reveals God’s solidarity with the marginalized and vulnerable, and not just the powerful and the elite. Similarly, God’s coming out as the Jesus who ministers to those who are “unclean” reveals God’s preferential option for the outcast and the excluded, and not just religiously “respectable” people. Indeed, God “chose what is weak in the
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Chris glazer coring out as revelation
