This slim, popular level volume aims at helping contemporary Christians recover the significance of the ascension for the Christian life. Perry & Perry contend that this is a doctrine, affirmed in the Creeds but not thought much of, or demythologized by contemporary critics rather than celebrated as a historical event.

The Perry brothers argue that the Ascension happened and because it happened the events Christ's Incarnation, His Death and Resurrection are given their full meaning. They also discuss the paradoxical nature of Christ's absence and presence for us.

On a 'practical side' they talk about how the ascension impacts the Christian Life by examining confession, martyrdom and the sacraments.

This book is more suggestive than conclusive. In my mind the authors talk about more than "ascension" though they view the ascension as the capstone of Christ's earthly work. I read this thinking ahead to Ascension day next week. As a not particularly liturgical Christian, I found this book fruitful for thinking through the significance of Christ's ascension but I am following up reading it with Douglas Farrow's meatier Ascension and Ecclesia. ( )