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Ascension and Ecclesia

By Douglas Farrow

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Ascension and Ecclesia

By Douglas Farrow

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
354
Release Date:
2011-02-06
Publication Date:
2004-05-06
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
056708325X
ISBN13:
9780567083258
Weight:
446 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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