Monday, July 30, 2007
An Old Paper - The Kingdom of God
Back in 1998 I decided to do what essentially became my Master’s thesis. Thanks to the guidance of Dr. Darrell Guder, who is a brilliant missional theologian, I wrote the following paper focused on a) understanding what we mean by the Kingdom of God b) seeing if that is the correct template to understand success for our mission’s projects and c) which authors get closest to the Kingdom in their mission theology.
Needless to say it was one of the most important papers I ever wrote for my own theological development, and it also got me into my PhD program. So, after having so many requests for people to read it, here it is:
A couple of notes on this paper. First, it was written in 1999. While there is nothing I say in here that I would not say now, there is a lot more that I would say. Second, if you have not read Leslie Newbigin, you owe it to yourself to do so, regardless of whether or not you read my paper - especially The Open Secret and The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society.
So, I hope this is of a service to you. The Kingdom of God is the single most important theological and biblical idea that every Christian should know. When we say we are “saved” we are not merely saved from something, we are saved to something - The Kingdom of God!
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