Latin theological interpretations on templum Dei until the Second Council of Constantinople: A Mariological and Christological symbol

This paper seeks to highlight the various interpretations that, before Second Council of Constantinople (May-June 553), many Latin Church Fathers gave on several metaphorical expressions, such as “God’s temple,” “sanctuary,” “tabernacle,” “ark,” and other similar terms referring spaces or containers reserved for deity. To address this issue, author article structures his methodology three strategies: first consists in a profound tracking Patristic theological sources detect some relevant statements by conspicuous Christian masters subject; through second, he analyzes intra-textually each found assertions decipher doctrinal interpretation that every writer brings about metaphors; third methodological strategy, intertextually relates all these texts, authors comparative analysis their possible concordances discrepan- cies.