was the only real temple. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.…”15 The Church itself was the new and heavenly Jerusalem: the Church in Jerusalem was by contrast unimportant. The fact that Christ comes and is present was far more significant than the places where he had been. The historical reality of Christ was of course the undisputed ground of the early Christians’ faith: yet they did not so much remember him as know he was with them. And in him was the end of “religion,”