The Message of the Kingdom of God (The Bible Speaks Today Themes)

by T. Desmond Alexander

Publisher:

IVP

, 2024

Overview

God made us to rule with him as his representatives, to establish his kingdom on earth. But Adam and Eve’s rebellion alienated humanity from God’s kingdom, becoming slaves instead to the kingdom of darkness. As the promised ruler, Jesus Christ comes as the perfect king to redeem enslaved humanity. The servant king brings God’s kingdom on earth through self-sacrificial love. In hope, we await the return of the king and the coming of the eternal kingdom.

Across 22 chapters, T. Desmond Alexander expounds the theme of the kingdom of God from selected Old and New Testament texts, showing its relevance for today.

Key Features

• Expounds the theme of the kingdom of God from selected Old and New Testament texts
• Explores a central biblical theme in this accessible exposition of the kingdom of God

Product Details

• Title: The Message of the Kingdom of God
• Author: T. Desmond Alexander
• Series: The Bible Speaks Today: Bible Themes Series
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 279
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: The Kingdom of God › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781789743821, 9781789743838, 1789743826, 1789743834
• Resource ID: LLS:BSTTKINGDOM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-10T00:20:54Z

About T. Desmond Alexander

T. Desmond Alexander is director of Christian training at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. From 1980 to 1999, he was lecturer in Semitic studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast. His main field of research is the Pentateuch, about which he has written extensively in academic journals and books. Alexander also has a special interest in the relationship between the Old and New Testaments. He is the author of From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Main Themes of the Pentateuch and Abraham in the Negev, and he is a coeditor (with Brian S. Rosner) of the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (IVP, 2000), available from Logos.