In terms of biblical theology, as Genesis 1–3 makes clear, for humans to say “God” is to be implaced, and insofar as place evokes—as it clearly does—the nexus God, place, and humankind, it would be quite right to see place as a major contender for the central theme of biblical faith, Scripture moving, as it does, from Eden (an urban-style garden) via the land of Israel and the cultic center of Jerusalem, to the incarnate Jesus, to the city of the new Jerusalem, which is central to the new heavens