# Jesus Christ — The Pursuit of God character guide > Jesus Christ in The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. **Role:** major **Also known as:** Christ, Jesus, One Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ, The Lord Jesus Christ Himself **First appearance:** 0003-the-pursuit-of-god ## Snapshot The living Person at the center of the soul's pursuit, whose love burned in Tozer's preaching like a sweet and holy madness. ## Who they are He stands as the beginning, middle, and end of everything for the seeking soul, the joy of heaven who enters sorrowful hearts and cannot be exhausted by eternity's praise. The tension he exposes is that Christ may be 'received' without kindling any love in the receiver, leaving a man saved but not thirsty, content with little. He matters to the early arc because the whole pursuit only makes sense if God is a knowable Person rather than an inference, an ideal, or a mere principle. ## Relationships ### [The Godhead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/the_godhead) _family_ Jesus Christ is in constant communion with the Godhead, representing the core theological relationship of divine unity and submission. ### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/unknown_narrator) _psychological_ Jesus Christ serves as the central mediator and focus of the narrator's devotional pursuit and personal transformation. ### [Self](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/self) _psychological_ Jesus Christ is the model and goal for the self's transformation, calling the self to die and be reborn in Him. ### [Moses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/moses) _professional_ Jesus Christ is presented as the fulfillment of the law given through Moses, with Moses often appearing in typological contrast. ### [Nicholas of Cusa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/nicholas_of_cusa) _psychological_ Nicholas of Cusa is a mystic theologian whose ideas about learned ignorance are applied by the narrator to the contemplation of Christ. ### [The Godhead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/the_godhead) _family_ Jesus Christ is in constant communion with the Godhead, representing the core theological relationship of divine unity and submission. ### [The Godhead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/the_godhead) _family_ Jesus Christ is in constant communion with the Godhead, representing the core theological relationship of divine unity and submission. ### [Self](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/self) _psychological_ Jesus Christ is the model and goal for the self's transformation, calling the self to die and be reborn in Him. ### [Moses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/moses) _professional_ Jesus Christ is presented as the fulfillment of the law given through Moses, with Moses often appearing in typological contrast. ### [Self](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/self) _psychological_ Jesus Christ is the model and goal for the self's transformation, calling the self to die and be reborn in Him. ## In the story ### [I: Following Hard After God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/i-following-hard-after-god) Christ is presented as the One who waits to be wanted, the object of the soul's gaze, and the One through whom the veil is rent, enabling believers to enter God's presence. ### [II: The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/ii-the-blessedness-of-possessing-nothing) Christ is referenced as the one who taught the principle of losing one's life to find it, and whose own sacrifice parallels Abraham's ordeal. ### [III: Removing the Veil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/iii-removing-the-veil) Jesus is referenced as the one through whose blood believers have boldness to enter the holiest, and as the Light of the World and Bread of Life symbolized in the tabernacle. ### [IV: Apprehending God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/iv-apprehending-god) Quoted as saying 'Ye believe in God, believe also in me,' and referenced as the one through whom the atoning work on the cross enables spiritual faculties to be quickened. ### [VI: The Speaking Voice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/vi-the-speaking-voice) Referred to as the Word, the second Person of the Trinity, through whom God speaks and reconciles all things. ### [VII: The Gaze of the Soul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/vii-the-gaze-of-the-soul) The object of faith's gaze; referred to as the author and finisher of faith, the perfect One upon whom the soul looks. ### [Restoring the Creator-Creature Relation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/viii-restoring-the-creator-creature-relation) Referenced as the one through whose blood the atonement makes restoration judicially possible, and whose yoke is easy and burden light. ### [IX: Meekness and Rest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/ix-meekness-and-rest) Quoted as the source of the Beatitudes and the one who offers rest to the weary. His meekness is the model for believers. ### [X: The Sacrament of Living](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/chapters/x-the-sacrament-of-living) Presented as the perfect example of a unified life, living without strain and always pleasing the Father. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters/jesus_christ - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pursuit_of_god_se/characters