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Ascension and Ecclesia

On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology

  • Paperback
  • 354 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 13.7 x 21.4 x 2.7 cm

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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
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  • Author

    Douglas Farrow

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    May 2004

  • Edition

    illustrated edition

  • Weight

    414g

  • Page Count

    354

  • Dimensions

    13.7 x 21.4 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567083258

  • ISBN-10

    056708325X

  • Eden Code

    1152239

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