Understanding the Kingdom of God

by Harkness, Georgia

• ISBN13: 9780687325696
• ISBN10: 0687325692
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr

Summary

"In Understanding the Kingdom of God, pioneering theologian Georgia Harkness addresses the "spiritual hunger ... beneath the spiritual chaos and lack of compelling purpose" she perceived in society. Her claim is that understanding the kingdom of God gives hope, calls for repentance, offers renewal, demands obedience to the will of God, and calls us to love one another. Three decades after its first publication, the penetrating insights of Georgia Harkness's Understanding the Kingdom of God continue to speak to today's readers."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Where we stand	p. 17
The popularity of Jesus	p. 17
The miracle of Jesus	p. 19
The problems emerge	p. 21
Prophetic or apocalyptic?	p. 25
Our dilemma	p. 29
The spectrum of opinion	p. 32
Apocalyptic eschatology	p. 32
Prophetic eschatology	p. 38
Realized eschatology	p. 44
The kingdom as existential decision	p. 47
What is the kingdom of God?	p. 52
A composite view	p. 53
Some differentiations of meaning	p. 62
A reexamination of the spectrum	p. 65
The kingdom before and after Jesus	p. 68
Backgrounds of the kingdom concept	p. 68
Did Jesus believe himself to be the Messiah?	p. 82
The kingdom of God in the early church	p. 85
The kingdom in the parables	p. 91
Why the parables?	p. 91
The worth of the kingdom	p. 94
The conditions of entrance	p. 97
Life in the kingdom	p. 101
The parables of growth	p. 103
The parables of judgment	p. 108
The difference it makes	p. 116
The world we live in	p. 117
Types of response	p. 122
In the mainline churches	p. 123
In the adventist sects	p. 127
Some other conceptions	p. 131
Hope, demand, and victory	p. 134
Thy kingdom come	p. 148
The destiny of the individual person	p. 148
The coming kingdom	p. 152
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.