Anthony J. Kelly, CSSR,(1938-2024), was professor of theology at Australian Catholic University and deputy director of the university's Institute for Catholic Identity and Mission. He was recently made an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Catholic Theological Association and was a member of the Pontifical International Theological Commission. He had lectured and taught in Singapore, the Philippines, India, Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States. The author of many articles and books, his most recent are Experiencing God in the Gospel of John (2003, with Francis J. Moloney), Eschatology and Hope (2006), and The Resurrection Effect: Transforming Christian Life and Thought (2008).
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
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