La Corona: Ascension by John Donne
Salute the last and everlasting day, Joy at th’ uprising of this Sun, and Son, Ye whose true tears, or tribulation Have purely wash’d, or burnt your drossy clay. Behold, the Highest, parting hence
Salute the last and everlasting day, Joy at th’ uprising of this Sun, and Son, Ye whose true tears, or tribulation Have purely wash’d, or burnt your drossy clay. Behold, the Highest, parting hence
Continuing from yesterday… *** In all this, Jesus, “seated at the right hand of the Father” and reigning as the King to whom “all authority in heaven and on earth
Two thousand years of Christian culture has kneaded into the western mind the idea that Heaven is something like a civil right. “Dying and going to Heaven” is a phrase
Continuing from yesterday… *** Jesus Ascended in His Full Humanity by the Power of His Full Divinity Some people have the notion that the Ascension signifies the moment that Jesus
Continuing from yesterday…. *** Perhaps the best thing to do is take Jesus at his word and look at his behavior in his Resurrection appearances. Mary Magdalene’s perfectly natural response
Why an Ascension? We know from the Resurrection narratives that while Jesus possesses a body that is in some sense physical and in continuity with the body that was buried
Continuing from yesterday… *** The other two places the Ascension is recounted as a story and not simply assumed as the backdrop to a discussion about something else is in
I thought I would offer a quasi-novena of posts on the Ascension, a neglected facet of New Testament theology that is nonetheless an important aspect of Christian faith (important enough
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