Upward
Faith, Church, and the Ascension of Christ
Upward
Faith, Church, and the Ascension of Christ
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814682678
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 04/02/2014
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
The ascension of Christ is usually taken for granted and often neglected. Indeed, it represents that forgotten dimension of faith in its reach beyond the categories, concepts, and concerns of our mundane existence, even in the church. This book is written with the conviction that there are further riches to be discovered. Christ’s ascension indelibly marks the limitless horizon of Christian life. It reminds us that the mission of evangelization is unconfined, always moving beyond, upward, outward, in the vitality of the risen Christ who already occupies every dimension of time and space. Properly understood, the ascension is a fundamental aspect of the catholicity of faith and enables it to breathe more deeply in its experience of “the boundless riches of Christ” (Eph 3:9).
Contents
Preface vii
1: Jesus Ascends—and a World of Questions 1
2: The Ascension and the New Testament: A Multidimensional Impact 19
3: The Phenomenon of the Ascension: Recollecting the Experience 39
4: The Body of the Ascended Christ and the Expanding Incarnation 62
5: The Ascension and the Eucharist: Real Absence and Real Presence 92
6: The Ascension: Out of Sight, and the Eyes of Faith 109
7: Theology in the Light of the Ascension 131
8: “Lift Up Your Hearts”: Looking in the Right Direction 160
Selected Bibliography 170
Index 174
With Anthony Kelly's Upward: Faith, Church and the Ascension of Christ, you have an elegantly writeen and well-argued book that both fills a need and breaks new ground. The ascension has been widely neglected, resulting in the loss of some of the oxygen of faith that would enable us to breathe more deeply when experiencing "the boundless riches of Christ" (Eph 3:8). Kelly's book supplies this oxygen. It also breaks new ground by repeatedly illustrating how believe in Christ's ascension widely affects or should affect the experience of faith, the life of the Church, and its theology. . . . [A] rich book.
Australian eJournal of Theology Kelly's rich and pathbreaking new book . . . focuses on Christ's ascension as the telos of the incarnation-not its termination, but its goal and extension. . . . The risen and ascended Christ's transformed humanity is the prime theological analogue for a fuller understanding and appreciation of corporeality, embracing also Christ's Eucharistic body and his ecclesial body. . . . With this fine book [Kelly] has provided the theological community a gift to be savored, pondered, and prayed.
Robert Imbelli, Boston College, Theological Studies
