Tag Archives: Early Christian

“The Cosmic Ring-Dance of the Angels”: The Text of Frederick M. Huchel’s Presentation at the UK Temple Studies Group Symposium II

By David Larsen | Published: June 10, 2009
It is my honor and pleasure to bring you, with his permission, the full text of Frederick M. Huchel’s presentation at the recent UK Temple Studies Group symposium, entitled “The Cosmic Ring-Dance of the Angels: An Early Christian Rite of the Temple.”  Prefacing the presentation are some words of introduction by Frederick Huchel, himself, followed [...]
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On the Apologists and Angel Pneumatology

By David Larsen | Published: September 17, 2008
In my Age of the Fathers class, we have recently been discussing the early Christian apologists. Here follows a few notes: Definition of apologists is rather arbitrary. Lists of who the apologists were varies. The late Richard Norris offered the following definition: The term “Apologists”, as applied to Christian writers of the early period, denotes [...]
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Baptism or Temple Initiation? Part II

By David Larsen | Published: July 2, 2008
The Ancient Temple Initiation of the High Priesthood As I stated in my last post, Margaret Barker shows some interesting similarities between Christian baptism and the initiatory rites of the ancient royal high priesthood which generally took place at the temple. While she makes some good points, I think some caution is required. Barker herself states that [...]
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Baptism or Temple Initiation?

By David Larsen | Published: June 29, 2008
Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part IV  In this post I will be looking at Chapter 5 of Temple Themes, entitled “Baptism and Resurrection.” In this chapter, Barker gives evidence that shows how Christian baptism was not simply an imitation of contemporary Jewish conversion rites, but had its roots in the much [...]
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Jesus, Yahweh, and the Temple: Part II

By David Larsen | Published: June 18, 2008
Representing the Heavenly on Earth: The Temple We now look at the Temple, the place where Heaven is represented on Earth. Eusebius knew that Moses had built the Tabernacle as an imitation of the visions he had be given on Sinai (Exod 25:8, 40): And Moses himself, having first been thought worthy to view the [...]
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Jesus, Yahweh, and the Temple

By David Larsen | Published: June 16, 2008
Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part III   In my last post on Barker’s Temple Themes, I looked at how the early Christians expected a new Temple to be built for them to worship in. Jesus had restored the true doctrines of the First Temple, and the Christians expected him to [...]
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The Hymn of the Pearl, a.k.a. The Hymn of the Soul, a.k.a. The Hymn of the Robe of Glory

By David Larsen | Published: June 3, 2008
My professor, Dr. Andrei Orlov, introduced me to a poem that I think more Latter-day Saints should know about. It is found within the apocryphal work The Acts of Thomas, which is known to have circulated in the 4th century and recounts the missionary journeys of Judas Thomas the Apostle to India. It is known in [...]
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Insights from Margaret Barker’s “Temple Themes in Christian Worship”

By David Larsen | Published: June 2, 2008
 The Secret Temple Tradition This begins a series of posts in which I hope to share some of the most exciting insights provided by biblical scholar Margaret Barker in her most recent book, Temple Themes in Christian Worship (T&T Clark International, 2007). Margaret Barker has become well known and well respected in LDS circles because of [...]
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