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Both contentions made in Chapter 1, that the ascension in Acts requires a narrative reading, and that the ascension concerns problematic conceptions of Christological presence and absence, point towards the need for geographical theory to inform a richer spatial understanding of the ascension. Yet, as Chapter 1 has also shown, narrative criticism has tended to underplay the geographical or spatial aspects of the text. All too often, geography is reduced to background scenery, or considered only as a flash of ‘colour’, or assumed to function as an already-made ‘setting’ in which narrative action subsequently occurs. Geography is rarely viewed as being genuinely involved in developing the narrative and its theological message.
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Both contentions made in Chapter 1, that the ascension in Acts requires a narrative reading, and that the ascension concerns problematic conceptions of Christological presence and absence, point towards the need for geographical theory to inform a richer spatial understanding of the ascension. Yet, as Chapter 1 has also shown, narrative criticism has tended to underplay the geographical or spatial aspects of the text. All too often, geography is reduced to background scenery, or considered only as a flash of ‘colour’, or assumed to function as an already-made ‘setting’ in which narrative action subsequently occurs. Geography is rarely viewed as being genuinely involved in developing the narrative and its theological message.
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