Ascension Theology and Habakkuk by Neal D. Presa

Author:Neal D. Presa
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319763422
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

With verse 16 sandwiched between two sets of doxology and two sets of pending judgment, verse 16 is a moment of reflection, a built-in, unstated Selah, like the explicit Selah rubrics immediately following verses 3, 9, and 13. Verse 16 bridges the gap between the combination of doxology and judgment and the final judgment that culminates in doxology.

The sacramentality of Habakkuk 3, and its two prior chapters, disclosed the Deus absconditus, Deus revelatus—God hidden, God revealed. It also showed the explicit and implicit struggles of Habakkuk, and his community (the exilic, the diaspora , the remnant), and, by extension, the struggles of God’s people in all times and in every place. Because the church lives in the time of the ascension of the Lord, we live with the reality of absence–presence, hidden–revealed.

This squares well with the lived experience of the Filipino American Christian diaspora, and an ecclesiology that understands the church to be a body which participates in God’s mission through the Spirit of Christ as the church struggles to connect with others in the diaspora , while blooming where one is planted in the hometown and bridging with the homeland. A sacramental hermeneutic , when engaged in tandem with ascension theology and an ascension homiletic , gives further texture to an ecclesiology which is shaped by and which shapes the Filipino American Christian diaspora in the Reformed theological traditions.

Footnotes

1Mark Anthony Godin, Discerning the Body: A Sacramental Hermeneutic in Literature and Liturgy. PhD thesis. Glasgow, Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2010. Accessible at: http://​theses.​gla.​ac.​uk/​1400/​1/​2009godinphd.​pdf

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