As there is sacred time in the New Covenant (the Christian sabbath, the Lord's Day), does it also make sense to think there is sacred space? I ask this question from complete ignorance, but don't sciencey boffins kinda tell us that space and time go together?
Clearly the Lord Jesus has transformed sacred space. His body (physical and ecclesial) is the Temple. Jerusalem is no longer a holy city in a holy land. Church meetings can take place anywhere.
I guess we could all agree that heaven is a sacred space. And we pray that earth will become like heaven. Heaven will one day come down to earth.
This is actually a question about holiness. In the Old Covenant there are degrees of holiness from unclean, clean / common, right up to holy of holies.
Jesus has saved and cleansed the world. The world has in some way taken over from the promised land. All space is clean. Is all space holy? Are some places more holy than others?
Similarly, Jesus declared all foods clean - though the Supper remains a holy food.
Thinking allowed.
To ask the whole question again, all the sacred space stuff in the OT, only applicable to Jesus?
Does anyone know of any good stuff to read on sacred space (especially from a Reformed perspective)?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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Musing on this a bit further, maybe there could be some kind of argument along the lines of church as holy, world as new cleansed land with the holiness of the church spreading / growing / influnecing the land - though that is not to say that all the world becomes the church as such.
Whether there could also be special sacred space in a very literal sense...
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