Where Is Jesus Now?

In Where Is Jesus Now?, Markus Bockmuehl offers a major exegetical account of one of the New Testament's most fundamental and enduring questions: How does the risen and ascended Jesus remain personally present and active with his people? Bockmuehl argues that the New Testament construes the presence of Jesus not as mere memory, symbolism, or subjective devotion but as the agency of the crucified, risen, and exalted Lord himself--mediated above all through the Spirit, Scripture, apostolic proclamation, sacrament, and the life of the church. Across the New Testament writings, Bockmuehl traces this nearness through three interlocking coordinates: · the ecclesial: Jesus's authority and agency among his gathered people · the sacramental: participation in his crucified-and-raised body in Eucharist and baptism · the eschatological: the tension of his nearness, absence, and coming Engaging the Gospels, Acts, epistles, and Revelation, this landmark study shows how these coordinates converge on a single governing distinction: Mediation is not substitution. Spirit, Scripture, church, Eucharist, and baptism do not replace Jesus's presence but enact it. Written with exegetical clarity and theological depth, Where Is Jesus Now? will serve scholars, theologians, graduate students, and pastors seeking a deeper account of the New Testament's witness to Jesus's continuing presence.