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Living Waters In May of 2003, Margaret Barker was invited to give the Cardinal Hume lectures at Heythrop College, University of London. These four lectures serve as the basis for her tenth book, Temple Theology: An Introduction. She comments that the invitation to do the lectures "gave me the opportunity to pause and look at my work. For many years I have been absorbed in a quest to discover the meaning of the temple...I have often been reminded how far I have traveled (or even strayed!) from the mainstream. In these... more info
New Perspective using very Old Sources Having read most of Margaret Barker's works, she follows her same modis operandi in spelling out the Old Testament symbolism to gain a more clear understanding of Christianity. Where many Scholars assume that the first Christians had a very simple and undeveloped faith that evolved due to Greek influence, Barker shows that the Jewish Christian perspective was well developed and built off a much older tradition. This is a very short book and written in lay terms making it accessible to all readers. It focus'... more info
