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Monday, December 5th, 2005
O.K. Let me finally clear out my in-box with the following:
Jim McGuiggan’s site is http://jimmcguiggan.com/. I often listen to the audio as I clean out my office (when I finally get around to it). He even answers his emails. (I read his “Life on the ash heap” book on Job just a few months ago and was blessed.) My favorite line when he preaches: I’m not angry, I just sound that way! (Some preachers yell when the point is weak. Jim yells when he feels like it. Definitely NOT a screamer, though.)
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Ascension books: Basically, the two following books are a history of Ascension theology, and both are good…
- He Ascended into Heaven, J. G. Davies (1958). You can usually find it at Abebooks.com (great site. Ask Greg.) It was the first book written in English on the Ascension in something like 50 years.
- Ascension and Ecclesia, Douglas Farrow, (Eerdmans, 1999). Much more in-depth than Davies. Only to read if you really want to know what everybody thought about Ascension. Not a light read, at least for me.
- Ascension Now, Peter Atkins, (The Liturgical Press, 2001). O.K. Pretty practical and pretty short. I liked it better the second time through. Anyone can understand it though he dwells excessively on the paradox of the “absence” and the “presence” of Christ.