There are various Christians who have had cosmic visions of Christ where Jesus rules all creation and the whole universe. Paul's vision in Ephesians and Colossians is cosmic in scope concerning Christ. The early Christian apologist Origen had a cosmic vision of Christ and then there were Julian of Norwich's visions among many other Christian mystics. In the last century, Eastern Orthodox Pavel Forensky had a mystical vision of Christ as well as Teilhard de Chardin. The person many may not be familiar with is the cosmic vision of Christ in Maximus the Confessor's writings.
Maximus says all of reality is an interlocking of realities from heaven and earth, soul and body, and physical (visible) and spiritual (invisible) realms. There was a cosmic disaster of the fall and the cosmic restoration of everything through the cross of Christ. The whole cosmos for Maxixus is the environment of God's loving care. Creation is progressively being clothed in the glory of Christ. Everything is moving in a circular spiral movement towards its final rest. The liturgy is a kind of bridge between heaven and earth as everything will reach its apex in the self emptying love of Christ and human deification.
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