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Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology

Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology

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Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 056708325X
ISBN13: 9780567083258
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Jul 1 2004
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.39 Depth: 8.41
Language: English

Recent theology offers few attempts to come to grips with the meaning and implications of the ascension of Jesus.

Professor Farrow begins with a discussion of the biblical treatment of the ascension and Eucharistic celebration, from which emerges the unique ecclesial worldview. There are chapters on the treatment of these ideas by Irenaeus, Origen and Augustine, and on developments up to the Reformation. He explores the link between ideas of the ascension, cosmology and ecclesiology.

Farrow goes on to examine the difficulties faced by the doctrine of ascension in the modern scientific world. In a final chapter he calls for an ecclesiology, which does not marginalise the human Jesus

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