Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian CosmologyRecent theology offers few attempts to come to grips with the meaning and implications of the ascension of Jesus. Ascension and Ecclesia promises to refocus attention on this crucial Christian doctrine. Farrow begins with a discussion of the biblical treatment of the ascension and eucharistic celebration, from which emerges a unique ecclesial worldview. Succeeding chapters explore the link between the ascension, cosmology, and ecclesiology and examine the difficulties faced by the doctrine of ascension in our modern scientific world. |
Contents
Thinking about the Church | 1 |
Two Histories | 7 |
The Ascension as Story and Metaphor | 15 |
A Lukan Artifice? | 16 |
The Larger Story | 22 |
Breaking Boundaries | 29 |
The Masters Metaphor | 38 |
Cosmologies and Ecclesiologies I | 41 |
East | 131 |
West | 152 |
Where is Jesus? | 165 |
An Unresolved Question | 172 |
Discourse on the Dead Christ | 180 |
Return of the Cosmic Christ | 191 |
This Same Jesus | 222 |
Church at the Crossroads | 255 |
Preserving the Tension | 43 |
Eucharistic Ecclesiology | 66 |
One Step Forward | 81 |
Cosmologies and Ecclesiologies II | 87 |
Two Steps Back | 89 |
Augustine | 106 |
Dualist Ecclesiology | 129 |
In the Shadow of Sinai | 256 |
Ecce Homo | 267 |
Biblical Resources | 275 |
Exaltation and Preexistence | 281 |
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