Sacrifice and Worship After the Stoicheia

Can we pick out features of Levitical sacrificial and purity regulations that still regulate our worship? If “regulate” is too strong, does stoicheic worship inform worship after the stoicheia? If so, how so? Most importantly, does the New Testament justify such a procedure? Do the apostles ever reason this way?

Here, Peter Leithart examines New Testament passages that employ Old Testament sacrificial texts in a “tropological” fashion – that is, texts that show stoicheic sacrifice fulfilled not only in Jesus’ death on the cross but in the life of the New Testament church. This will lead into an examination of New Testament passages that apply Old Testament sacrificial texts and concepts specifically to Christian worship. Finally, he examines texts that appeal to Old Testament sacrificial rules and patterns to regulate or inform specific practices in Christian worship.