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Margaret Barker, Robin Griffith-Jones, Laurence Hemming, Susan Parsons and Geoffrey Rowell have established a Temple Studies Group to convene symposia on Temple themes.

The Temple Studies Group promotes and enables study of the Temple in Jerusalem, believing that the world view, traditions, customs and symbolism of the Temple were formative influences on the development of Christianity. 

 

Temple Studies Group symposia begin with an introduction to one aspect of ancient Temple tradition, and then trace this into Christianity, to show how Temple teaching has been preserved in all branches of the Church. The symposia are convened twice a year and are open to all. 

The next Symposium, entitled 'The Temple in the Johannine Writings' is planned for Saturday 16 June 2012. More...

In addition to organising one day symposia, the Group will encourage advanced academic research and support occasional colloquia on temple themes.

The TSG held a one-week Summer School at Borrowash near Derby in August 2011 which was a great success, and there have been requests to hold another Summer School in 2012 (venue tbc). Watch this space...

This is an ecumenical and international initiative, entirely self funding and dedicated to the development  of scholarship in this field.