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 |  Subject: You Can Meet God Anywhere, But Are There Special Spiritual Places Where Heaven & Earth Draw Nearer?  Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:58 pm | |
| You Can Meet God Anywhere, But Are There Special Spiritual Places Where Heaven & Earth Draw Nearer?August 24, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor  Christianity inherited from Judaism a keen appreciation for “place.” The promises of God in the Hebrew Bible were intimately tied to the Land. The ultimate expression of that was the Temple, in Jerusalem, which was the centerpiece not only of worship but also of commercial, civic and cultural life in ancient Israel. When Jesus was crucified, the curtain of the Temple was torn and by AD70 it had been destroyed along with much of the City of Jerusalem. But that doesn’t mean that Christianity lost its appreciation of holy places […] The Celtic Christians, leaning on the teachings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, spoke about ‘thin places’ – often places rich in nature where heaven and earth seemed especially close. Places like Iona and Lindisfarne typify this theme […] As medieval Christian Europe saw vast cathedrals erected to the glory of God, place became ever more significant – with pilgrimages to ‘holy sites’ beginning. Famous trails developed across Europe and beyond as Christians traipsed hundreds or even thousands of miles to reach Santiago De Compostela in northern Spain, Walsingham in eastern England, or even Jerusalem itself…(READ MORE) |
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