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“Jerusalem: Holiness In The Flesh” – R.R. Reno At HLD 2018

“Jerusalem: Holiness In The Flesh” – R.R. Reno At HLD 2018 On the evening of Wednesday, February 7, the pilgrims of Holy Land Dialogues gathered in Beit Shmuel once again to listen to another prominent …More
“Jerusalem: Holiness In The Flesh” – R.R. Reno At HLD 2018
On the evening of Wednesday, February 7, the pilgrims of Holy Land Dialogues gathered in Beit Shmuel once again to listen to another prominent figure speak about Judeo-Christian dialogue. Participating in HLD thanks to the Social Trends Institute, R.R. Reno, the editor of the American journal First Things, talked about what Christians can learn from Jews when trying to understand the mystery of Christ’s incarnation.
Now that the pilgrims had spent three full days visiting the Holy Land – two in Jerusalem and one in Galilee – they felt ready to come to terms with a talk about what it means God came to earth in a specific time and place, and became man.
Reno first explained to his listeners the similarities between the Jewish and Christian conception of God who comes down to man in a very specific way. For example, for the Jews, God dwelt in the Temple, and for Catholics, God dwells in the consecrated host. “Jews and Christians …
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