Temple and Contemplation

Letter & Spirit, vol. 4 (2008)

Temple and Contemplation
God's Presence in the Cosmos, Church, and Human Heart

Articles

To See Where God Dwells:
The Tabernacle, the Temple, and the Origin of the Christian Mystical Tradition
Gary A. Anderson

Jesus, the New Temple, and the New Priesthood
Brant Pitre

The Rejected Stone and the Living Stones:
Psalm 118:22-23 and New Testament Christology and Ecclesiology
Michael Giesler

Temple, Sign, and Sacrament: Towards a New Perspective on the Gospel of John
Scott W. Hahn

Temple, Holiness, and the Liturgy of Life in Corinthians
Raymond Corriveau, C.S.s.R.

The Indwelling of Divine Love:
The Revelation of God's Abiding Presence in the Human Heart
Thomas S. Dubay, S.M.

Notes

Living Stones in the House of God:
The Temple and the Renewal of Church Architecture
Denis R. McNamara

"The Mystery of His Will": Contemplating the Divine Plan in Ephesians
William A. Bales

"You Are Gods, Sons of the Most High":
Deification and Divine Filiation in St. Cyril of Alexandria and the Early Fathers
Daniel A. Keating

Scripture, Doctrine, and Proclamation:
The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Renewal of Homiletics
John C. Cavadini

Tradition & Traditions

The Sign of the Temple: A Meditation
Jean Cardinal Danielou

Church, Kingdom, and the Eschatological Temple
Yves J.-M. Cardinal Congar

Reviews

•  Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, IL:Intervarsity, 2006)
•  Aidan Nichols, Lovely Like Jerusalem: The Fulfillment of the Old Testament in Christ and the Church (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2007)
•  Robert L. Wilken, trans. and ed., Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, The Church's Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007)
•  Cornelius a Lapide, S.J., Commentary on the Four Gospels, 4 vols. (Fitzwilliam, NH: Loreto, 2008)
•  John T. Pennington, Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew, Supplements to Novum Testamentum 126 (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
•  Matthew Levering, Participatory Biblical Exegesis: A Theology of Biblical Interpretation (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008
•  G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, eds., Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007)