{"id":82065,"date":"2019-05-30T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82065"},"modified":"2019-05-30T05:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:53:44","slug":"douglas-farrow-on-the-meaning-of-the-ascension-for-ascension-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82065","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Farrow on the Meaning of the Ascension for Ascension Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ascension theology turns at this point to the Eucharist, for in celebrating the eucharist the church professes to know how the divine presents itself in our time, and how the question of faithfulness is posed. Eucharistically, the church acknowledges that Jesus has heard and has answered the upward call; that, like Moses, he has ascended into that impenetrable cloud overhanging the mountain. Down below, rumours of glory emanate from the elders, but the master himself is nowhere to be seen. He is no longer with his people in the same way he used to be. Yet he <i>is<\/i> with them, in the Spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Douglas Farrow, <b>Ascension Theology<\/b> (New York: T and T Clark, 2011), p. 64<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An Image for Ascension Day.<br \/>\n\u2018The Ascension\u2019, Benjamin West, 1801.<br \/>\nAs Jesus returns to heaven, the disciples wait&#8230;&#8230;and pray.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AscensionDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AscensionDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThyKingdomCome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThyKingdomCome<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/md3VeOftpn\">pic.twitter.com\/md3VeOftpn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark James (@revmarkjames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revmarkjames\/status\/1133977077852622848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ascension theology turns at this point to the Eucharist, for in celebrating the eucharist the church professes to know how the divine presents itself in our time, and how the question of faithfulness is posed. Eucharistically, the church acknowledges that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82065\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ascension","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93014,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82065\/revisions\/93014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}