The Open Sanctuary: Access to God and the Heavenly Temple in the New Testament
Digital Logos Edition
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Overview
How can impure, earthbound humans gain access to God, who is holy and in heaven? In ancient Israel and much of the ancient world, the answer was obvious: by means of a temple. The temple gives access to God because it images the cosmos.
This book explores how the concept of a heavenly temple emerged as an important theological concept for early Christians. They developed their understanding of Christ and his work in part through their understanding of heaven as temple. Nicholas Moore examines the heavenly temple in the New Testament within its Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts, demonstrating that the ministry of Jesus gives believers access to the dwelling place of God himself. Moore explores conceptions of the heavenly temple in the ancient world, Second Temple Judaism, the book of Revelation, Hebrews, the Gospels, Acts, and other early Christian literature.
This important contribution offers a corrective to the way many people understand the Jerusalem temple in early Christian thought. It is the first comprehensive study of the heavenly temple in the New Testament.
- Offers a corrective to the way many people understand the Jerusalem temple in early Christian thought
- Examines the heavenly temple in the New Testament within its Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts
- Explores how the concept of a heavenly temple emerged as an important theological concept for early Christians
- Title: The Open Sanctuary: Access to God and the Heavenly Temple in the New Testament
- Author: Nicholas James Moore
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 240
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Heaven › History of doctrines; Temples › History; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9781540965493, 9781493444496, 9781493444502, 154096549X, 1493444492, 1493444506
- Resource ID: LLS:PNSNCTRYNTSTMNT
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-29T18:01:06Z
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