Radiance of God's Glory

I'm a physicist and the language about Jesus being the radiance of God's glory speaks to me in a strange way. Radiance is light coming from a source. When you look at the radiance, you're seeing the source itself.

That's the claim about Jesus - when you look at him, you're seeing God. Not a representation, not a reduced version, but the actual thing. The incarnation is God becoming tangible, visible, knowable in human form.

I spend most of my time in abstractions and mathematics, so when I encounter the reality that God became concrete, became bodily, became particular - it reorients me. The divine is not just conceptual. It has weight, form, presence.