ACTING OUT THEOLOGY These and many other deep thoughts, obviously inspired by God, must have been in the minds of at least some of the priests who were now eagerly planning the ritual to be followed when the Second Temple was ready. Fortunately they possessed under God the genius to develop the theology they had inherited from the days of the First Temple, and which is to be found particularly in the books of Genesis and Deuteronomy, and then to weave it all into a programme that was meant for action