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Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

us ahead.27 We may ask, however, whether Ritschl’s thought-provoking analysis really penetrates to the heart of the problem. We may even ask whether a new focus on the Christus praesens is possible without at once attending more seriously to the Christus absens. For the history of God with which scripture and the creeds have to do is the history of the man Jesus, and Jesus, as we have said, has a course all his own.28 A course all his own? We have not yet mentioned the ascension directly, but then
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