BETWEEN EARTH & HEAVEN: liminality and the Ascension of Christ -- by Johanna Kramer

 2014 Book / monography published by

Manchester University Press (U.K.)

2014

published in the United States by Palgrave

Macmillan, New York, NY

ISBN 9780719087899 hardback

Biblical sources, patristic authorities,

and the development of Ascension theology

2 - God's footprints: material symbolism in

the Old English Martyrology and Blickling Homily #11

3- Gateway to salvation: Ascension theology in liminal spaces

4- Walking towards heaven: boundary rituals, community,

and Ascension theology in Homilies for Rogationtide

5- The liminal Christ in Anglo-Saxon art

from "Afterword" : "The images and motifs chosen to teach

Ascension theology are marked as both abstract and concrete.

These seemingly opposite aspects, as is the case with all religious

symbolism, illuminate each other:

Theology gives symbolic meaning to imagery,

while the imagery translates a doctrinal message

that might otherwise be elusive to the widest

range of audiences