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Defining and delineating the Work of Christ has been the concern of the church since the first century. Unfortunately, many attempts to understand that work have resulted either in wholesale rejections of theology or in complex theological jargon which, saying nearly everything, says nothing. Professor G. C. Berkouwer avoids both these pitfalls in this volume, the ninth to appear in the American...

the ascension as an isolated fact, apart from hire who—ascended into heaven—is sitting there at the right hand of God. Yet it is remarkable that not only in the Creed but also centuries later a distinction was made between the ascension and the sessio. Bavinck realizes this when he says that the sessio is closely connected with the resurrection and the ascension but yet clearly distinct from them, according to Scripture (Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, III, 439). Kuyper also sees a marked distinction: the
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