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Book SynopsisDouglas Farrow is Professor of Christian Thought, McGill University, Montreal.
Trade Review"'Expressed with a clarity that comes from years of careful thinking through the issues involved, Ascension Theology is an absolutely first-rate addition to the body of Catholic systematics' - Aidan Nichols, O.P., Blackfriars"
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Upward Call;... in which the ascension is located in its biblical context, allowing us to see how it forms the natural outcome of the story of Jesus; 2. Re-imaginings;... in which is traced the rewriting of the ascension story as 'a movement of the mind', a view pioneered by the early Alexandrians and newly developed in the Enlightenment; 3. Raising the Stakes;... in which an alternative with stronger roots in scripture, reckoning with the implications of ascension 'in the flesh', is discovered in St Irenaeus and supported from the later tradition; 4. A Question of Identity;... in which is clarified the fundamental issue at stake in the doctrine of the ascension, viz., the identity of the risen Christ and hence also the identity of the church; 5. Presence in Absence;... in which the rite that sustains the church during the absence of Christ is considered, with reference to the problem of the real presence; 6. The Politics of the Eucharist;... in which the church's eucharistic relation to the world is explored in connection with the mystery of lawlessness that shadows the heavenly session of Christ; 7. Ascension and Atonement;... in which is discussed the cleansing of heavenly things and the glorification of earthly things, and the great transition to glory; Epilogue.
