Gerrit Scott Dawson, Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ’s Continuing Incarnation

I recently finished Garret Scott Dawson’s book, Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ’s Continuing Incarnation. This is a great treatment of the often neglected doctrine of Jesus Christ’s ascension/continuing incarnation. A favorite few quotes:

“My premise is that the church–our local church and the churches of the west–needs to recover the meta-narrative of the gospel as a counter-story, indeed a better story to the one the world tells…One of those episodes[referring to the phrases/episodes in the Apostle's Creed], the ascension, has been sorely neglected in the church’s telling of the story.”

“There is a place where the human Jesus is.”

“The ascension, therefore, represents the departure of the incarnate Son of God back to the place where God is, taking human nature to where it has never gone before.”

“We have gained in Christ more than we lost in Adam!”

“The priesthood of Jesus, difficult as it is for western minds, is the key to understanding the continuing incarnation.”

“we generally live in ignorance of all we have in Christ and so it remains inert in our experience.”