Eden, the Temple, and the Church's mission in the new creation

Abstract

"This address has in mind those OT references where fulfillment is being indicated, but such fulfillment does not appear on the surface to be “literal” from the perspective of the OT author. How can such fulfillment have consistent hermeneutical continuity with the original meaning in the OT, which, on the surface, appears different from the meaning? I had planned to look at four different examples in the NT in order to address this thorny issue. The time we have now, however, will actually permit me to look at primarily one passage in depth to try to use it as a case study, which I believe sheds light on other similar difficult “OT in the NT” passages"